Paxton v. Ballard’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably 298 So. 2d 848 - Cox v. WM Heroman & Co., Inc. (1974), 316 So. 2d 111 - Webster v. Rushing (1975)
40 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 Succession of Smith · Erath Sugar Company v. Broussard · Felt v. Price · Althans v. Toye Bros. Yellow Cab Co. · Gauvereau v. Checker Cab Co.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Every pleading shall be so construed as to do substantial justice.' "These statutory imperatives plainly require a rule of reason in the construction of pleadings, designed to achieve justice between the parties. "As this Court held in Succession of Smith, 247 La. 921 , 175 So.2d 269 (1965): "Harsh rules of pleading are not favored in this state. Each pleading must be reasonably construed so as to afford the litigant his day in court, arrive at the truth, and do substantial justice. . . . "The characterization of a pleading by the litigant is not controlling. Pleadings are taken for what they really are, and not for what their authors designate them." 289 So.2d 85, 87 .”
3 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.