Lapoint v. Breaux’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 340 So. 2d 1331 - Prestenbach v. Sentry Ins. Co. · Wilson v. Louisiana Department of Highways · Bennett v. US Fid. & Guar. Co. · 343 So. 2d 251 - Walker v. St. Paul Ins. Companies · 238 So. 2d 534 - Pearce v. Gunter
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.
“very fond of their child, and his loss was a great blow to them”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The evidence shows that the other sample was picked up by a man from the Medical Pathology Laboratories, Inc., and by him delivered to that laboratory, where it was immediately tested. The man who picked up and delivered the blood sample did not testify nor did the person who delivered the sample to him. The person who actually performed the test testified as to how samples were customarily picked up and delivered, as to how the test was conducted, and the results thereof. There is therefore, nothing but the label on the sample to connect the testimony of the coroner and that of the person conducting the test. We find that this chain of circumstances does not satisfy the requirements of the law, and the evidence as to the result of the second test should have been excluded. Lapoint v. Breaux, 395 So.2d at 1380-1381. (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.