Billeaud v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2002
14 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 245 So. 2d 465 - State, Department of Highways v. D & J REALTY CO. · Simmons v. Beauregard Parish School Board · 299 So. 2d 574 - Thibodeaux v. Lock Clinic
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... [T]he better rule in the interest of judicial economy and orderly procedures is that the timely filing of a motion for new trial, by one or more of the parties to a lawsuit, holds the previously signed judgment in abeyance until a final judgment decides all issues as to all parties in the suit.... [citations omitted.]"”
4 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.