492 So. 2d 39 - Cenac v. Cenac’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
September 1998
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Arceneaux v. Domingue · Canter v. Koehring Company · 342 So. 2d 661 - Samuels v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. · Armwood v. Kennedy · Babin v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a writing is not required by law, a contract not reduced to writing, for a price or, in the absence of a price, for a value not in excess of five hundred dollars may be proved by competent evidence. If the price or value is in excess of five hundred dollars, the contract must be proved by at least one witness and other corroborating circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“called for in LSA-C.C. art. 1846 may be the one seeking to have the debt recognized. See Cenac v. Cenac, 492 So.2d at 43 . The”
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.