Knight v. Samuel’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2008
6 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 Hickman Ex Rel. Iles v. Southern Pacific Transport Co. · 377 So. 2d 319 - Guidry v. Theriot · 314 So. 2d 350 - Trahan v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company · Hope v. Madison · Allstate Ins. Co. v. Theriot
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.
“(a) This provision is new. It is based on Article 3518 of the Louisiana Civil Code of 1870 and on R.S. 9:5801. It does not change the law. Accordingly, Louisiana decisions interpreting the source provisions continue to be relevant[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if the two suits involve separate and distinct causes of action, the filing of the first does not interrupt prescription on the second suit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“serves to compensate a legislatively created class of persons for the loss occasioned by the wrongful killing of the decedent.”
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.