Kidd v. Fortenberry’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 2015
6 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 Smith v. Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company · Fruehauf Trailer Company v. Baillio · General Motors Accept. Corp. v. Deep South Pest Con. · State Ex Rel. Land v. Martin · 283 So. 2d 212 - Thurman v. Star Electric Supply, Inc.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We base our dismissal of this appeal on General Motors Acceptance Corporation v. Deep South Pest Control, Inc., 247 La. 625 , 173 So.2d 190 (1965), wherein the Louisiana Supreme Court held that a judgment denying a motion for new trial is neither a final judgment nor an interlocutory judgment which causes irreparable harm, citing State ex rel. Land v. Martin, 207 La. 410 , 21 So.2d 481 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A new trial shall be granted, upon contradictory motion of any party, in the following cases: (1) When the verdict or judgment appears clearly contrary to the law and evidence. * * * (emphasis added)”
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.