320 So. 2d 597 - Sutton v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 1999
5 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 287 So. 2d 497 - Creech v. Capitol MacK, Inc. · Bayhi v. Bayhi · Rhodes v. Rhodes · 33 La. Ann. 49 - Life Ass'n of America v. Hall · 315 So. 2d 656 - Quality Finance Co. of Donaldsonville, Inc. v. Bourque
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . That in all judicial partitions, where a partition is made by licitation, the mortgages, liens and privileges existing against any one or more of the co-proprietors, shall be by order of Court transferred to the proceeds of sale in the hands of the Notary, and the rights of all creditors shall be reserved on the said proceeds of sale to be urged by them, either before the notary or before the court, as may be necessary, provided the holders of such mortgages, liens and privileges be made parties to such judicial partition. . . . ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sylvester v. Latuso“"That in all judicial partitions, where a partition is made by licitation, the mortgages, liens and privileges existing against any one or more of the coproprietors, shall be by order of Court transferred to the proceeds of sale in the hands of the Notary, and the rights of all creditors shall be reserved on the said proceeds of sale to be urged by them, either before the notary or before the court, as may be necessary, provided the holders of such mortgages, liens and privileges be made parties to such judicial partition."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Beene v. Wilbur
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.