Felder v. Georgia Pac. Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 595 So. 2d 624 - Lima v. Schmidt (1992), Ingram Corp. v. J. Ray McDermott & Co. (1983)
2 federal appellate · 70 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 Bourgeois v. Franklin · 364 So. 2d 1321 - Singleton v. Bunge Corp. · Jasmin v. Gafney, Inc. · 336 So. 2d 1054 - Lalande v. Index Geophysical Survey Corp. · 311 So. 2d 58 - Senegal v. Delahoussaye
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A transaction or compromise is an agreement between two or more persons, who, for preventing or putting an end to a lawsuit, adjust their differences by mutual consent, in the manner which they agree on, and which every one of them prefers to the hope of gaining, balanced by the danger of losing. This contract must be either reduced into writing or recited in open court and capable of being transcribed from the record of the proceeding. The agreement recited in open court confers upon each of them the right of judicially enforcing its performance, although its substance may thereafter be written in a more convenient form.”
34 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen read together the two instruments constitute a written compromise agreement outlining the obligations of each party and evidencing the acquiescence therein by both parties, and is, therefore, an enforceable compromise agreement under, La.C.C. art. 3071. [emphasis added].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“I warrant that no promise or inducement not herein expressed has been made to me; that in executing this Release, I am not relying upon any statement or representation made by any person or party released or their agents and representatives concerning the nature or extent of the losses or damages sustained by me or the legal liability therefore, or concerning any other thing or matter; that the abovementioned payment is received by me in compromise settlement and full satisfaction of all the aforesaid claims and demands, actions and causes of action whatsoever; that I am of full age and legally competent to execute this Release, and that before signing and sealing of this Release, I have fully informed myself of its contents and meaning and have so executed it with full knowledge thereof.”
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.