49 So. 2d 622 - Russo v. Mula’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2012
7 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 Nielsen v. Planters Trust & Savings Bank · Bagneris v. Smoot · 10 La. App. 230 - Clemons v. Succession of Johnson · Martin v. Seabaugh · Schmidt v. Barker
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`The law grants no action for the payment of what has been won at gaming or by a bet, except for games tending to promote skill in the use of arms, such as the exercise of the gun and foot, horse and chariot racing. "`And as to such games, the judge may reject the demand, when the sum appears to him excessive.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"`An obligation without a cause, or with a false or unlawful cause, can have no effect.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Gambling is a vice and the Legislature shall pass laws to suppress it,"”
2 later decisions 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.