320 So. 2d 214 - Breaux v. Rimmer & Garrett, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 1991
10 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 Chaney v. Travelers Insurance Company · 304 So. 2d 357 - Green v. Taca International Airlines · Mixon v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. · Arnold v. Stupp Corporation · Loveridge v. Hurley
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is a general rule of construction of contracts that, unless a contrary intention appears from the contract as a whole, the meaning of general words will be restricted by the more specific terms or descriptions of the subject matter. Mixon v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co. of St. Paul, Minn., 147 La. 302 , 84 So. 790 (1920); Lafleur v. Sylvester, 135 So.2d 91 (La.App. 3d Cir.1961); LSA-C.C. arts. 1959-1961." At page 219.”
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.