Chauvin v. Bohn’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 2016
5 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 Little v. Haik · Roy O. Martin Lumber Co. v. Saint Denis Securities Co. · Louisiana State Board of Education v. Lindsay · Guice v. Mason · Hoth v. Schmidt
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.
“... It is the writing and the words that are important in the sale of immovables, not extrinsic evidence. “Neither shall parol evidence be admitted against or beyond what is contained in the acts, nor on what may have been said before, or at the time of making them, or since.” C.C. 2276 In light of the prohibition in this article, the court is constrained to an examination of the instrument itself; ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Earnest money, effect. But if the promise to sell has been made with the giving of earnest, each of the contracting parties is at liberty to recede from the promise; to wit: he who has given the earnest, by forfeiting it; and he who has received it, by returning the double.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Peterson v. Manzella“although C.C. 2275 literally demands only that transfers of immovable property be in writing, the jurisprudence has construed the article to encompass all contracts concerning immovable property”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.