Antoine v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 1991
12 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 Gravier's Curator v. Carraby's
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In Calhoun v. Lane, 89 La. Ann. 596 , 2 So. 219 , we-gave effect to an instrument, as a compromise, which did not contain those formal words. We can see no good reason why their use should be deemed essential. Under our liberal system of practice, nothing is sacramental as a matter of form, unless expressly so declared by statute. The instrument does not contain the phrase, ‘and which every one prefers to the hope of gaining, balanced by the danger of losing,’ which would seem to be equally important. “In our view, the only essential, as a matter of form, which the article quoted requires, is that ‘the contract must be reduced to writing-.’ “Without recapitulating the terms; provisions, and conditions of the instrument, we hold it to be a transaction or compromise in the sense of the Code, and was evidently intended for the purpose of preventing a lawsuit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Spitale v. Relan
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.