276 So. 2d 347 - Taylor v. Bocock’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 1995
12 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 Southern Hide Co. v. Best · 136 So. 2d 774 - Collier v. Administrator, Succession of Blevins · During v. Thibodeaux · 91 So. 2d 71 - In Re Ford's Succession · 246 So. 2d 246 - B. Stern Co. v. Perry
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Parol evidence shall not be received to prove any debt or liability of a deceased person against his succession representative, heirs, or legatees when no suit to enforce it has been brought against the deceased prior to his death, unless within one year of the death of the deceased: . . . "(2) The debt or liability is acknowledged by the succession representative as provided in Article 3242 of the Code of Civil Procedure, or by his placing it on a tableau of distribution, or petitioning for authority to pay it."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Dead Man's Statute' ... is to protect the estates of decedents, their representatives and heirs, against stale and unfounded claims which might have been refuted or disproved by the testimony of the deceased were he living.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Adams v. Adams · Rachal v. Charrier“"When parol evidence is admissible under the provisions of R.S. 13:3721 the debt or liability of the deceased must be provided by the testimony of at least one creditable witness other than the claimant, and other corroborating circumstances."”
2 later decisions 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.