Howes v. Doucet’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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.

1. “An interruption of prescription resulting from the filing of a suit in a competent court and in the proper venue or from service of process within the prescriptive period continues as long as the suit is pending. Interruption is considered never to have occurred if the plaintiff abandons, voluntarily dismisses, or fails to prosecute the suit at the trial.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Erickson v. City of New Orleans · 562 So. 2d 28 - Camaille v. Shell Oil Co.

2. “Additionally, I am concerned about the effect of the majority’s decision in cases where an involuntary dismissal is granted after the one-year prescriptive period has passed. In such cases, plaintiffs would lose their right to file suit, even though they properly filed the original suit prior to the running of prescription. For that reason also, I am unable to sanction the rule established by the majority. ...”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Erickson v. City of New Orleans