Lawton v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1973
1 federal appellate · 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 Southern Molasses Co. v. Boutcher · American Furniture Co. v. Snell
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not open to debate that persons competent to contract may qualify and/or make conditional obligations they assume. This is elemental, and when persons so covenant their contract is the law between them and must be enforced as agreed to. In keeping with this legal principle it is permissible for one loaning money to covenant with the borrower that repayment may be made only from a source or sources then in contemplation by the parties, and if the fund or funds from such source or sources prove to be insufficient to extinguish in full the loan or loans thus made, no personal responsibility thereáfter attaches to the borrower. See: American Furniture Co., Inc. v. Snell, et al., La.App., 164 So. 478 ; Southern Molasses Co., Inc. v. Boutcher, 172 La. 691 , 135 So. 27 .””
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.