35 So. 2d 613 - Brooks v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 1989
11 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 Pierre v. Barringer · Outdoor Electric Advertising, Inc. v. Saurage · Termini v. McCormick · Tichenor v. Dr. G. H. Tichenor's Antiseptic Co. · Succession of Breaux
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“performing services arising out of and incidental to his employment in the course of the business of the said Smith of decorating, repairing and building, papering, painting and renting houses, * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““An action can only be brought by one having a real and actual interest which he pursues, * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The Exception of No Cause of Action in Louisiana.”
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.