Meyers v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
April 1988
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Surridge v. Benanti · 289 So. 2d 292 - Davis v. Hanover Insurance Company
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“action may be brought against the insurer alone, or against both the insured and insurer jointly and in solido, in the parish in which the accident or injury occurred or in the parish in which an action could be brought against either the insured or the insurer under the general rules of venue prescribed by art. 42, Code of Civil Procedure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[n]o mention is made of the exceptions to those rules provided by article 43, although the legislature could have easily incorporated those exceptions had it desired to do so.”
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.