Louis v. Spain’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 1993
3 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 Nixon v. New York Life Insurance Co. · Bogle v. Landa · Nixon v. New York Life Insurance Co. · Leon v. J. Goldman & Son · McCampbell v. Henderson
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where suit was originally and properly brought in the county of the defendant’s residence, the question of venue may not be raised by the defendant’s heir who was made a party after the defendant’s death. So too, the fact that the representative of a deceased defendant is a resident of a county other than that in which the suit was originally and properly instituted does not entitle him to a change of venue to the county of his residence. The court having acquired jurisdiction over the person of the deceased, it has the power to bring before it his legal representative regardless of the county in which he resides.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The court in Wharton County had acquired jurisdiction over the person of Mrs. Cardwell, and on her death had the power to bring before it her legal representatives, regardless of the fact that they resided in another county... If the heirs were otherwise amenable to the process by which they were served, the fact that they resided out of the county where the suit was pending was no answer .. . The ruling of the court sustaining the plea of privilege was erroneous.””
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.