379 So. 2d 816 - Joy v. Joy’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 2001
7 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 Beatty v. Vining · Williamson v. Amilton · Pitre v. Pitre · Thomas v. Thomas · 376 So. 2d 517 - Cortez v. Cortez
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... for preventing or putting an end to a lawsuit, adjust[ed] their differences by mutual consent, in the manner which they agree[d] on, and which every one of them prefer[red] to the hope of gaining, balanced by the danger of losing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A partition, even when it takes upon itself the aspect and qualities of a compromise, may be attacked for lesion beyond one-fourth; but the partition once made, if disputes grow out of it, and the parties compromise on those disputes, this compromise is unassailable for lesion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] partition agreement, even though it may have the qualities of a transaction or compromise, may nevertheless be attacked for lesion beyond one-fourth, as provided in [LSA-C.C. arts. 1397, 1398] [2] .”
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.