Duhon v. Saloom’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 1998 · most notably Lavellee v. Listi (1980), Percy v. State, EA Conway Memorial Hosp. (1985)
2 federal appellate · 22 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 Babineaux v. Pernie-Bailey Drilling Co. · Cartwright v. Chrysler Corporation · Marquette Casualty Company v. Brown · Guderian v. Sterling Sugar & Ry. Co. · Phelps v. Donaldson
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . whatever is notice enough to excite attention and put the owner on his guard and call for inquiry is tantamount to knowledge or notice of everything to which inquiry may lead and such information or knowledge as ought to reasonably put the owner on inquiry, is sufficient to start the running of prescription.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . prescription does not commence to run until plaintiff has actual or constructive knowledge of the tortious act, the damage and the causal relation between the tortious act and the damage.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . [P]rescription does not commence until the treatment ceases. . .”
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.