Lowery v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 1991
7 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Edmendorf v. Clark · Harris v. Stockman · American Road Insurance Company v. Irby
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the provisions of La.Civ.Code Article 3079 a transaction may be rescinded when there exists an error on the matter in dispute. Error has been found sufficient to allow the rescission of a release when the party at whose insistence the release was obtained has an undue advantage over the releasing party who does not fully understand the nature of the rights being released. Harris v. Stockman, 197 So.2d 365 (La. App. 2d Cir.1967) ... As pointed out in the Harris case, it is not necessary to show fraud or misrepresentation to rescind a release, nor do we have these elements involved here. The evidence does show that Sallie Lowery did not understand her rights at the time she signed the release, nor was she sufficiently informed of what she was signing, or the real purpose therefor. Id. at 648.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.