535 So. 2d 959 - Smith v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 2011
1 federal appellate · 5 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 Giroir v. South Louisiana Medical Center, Division of Hospitals · 298 So. 2d 848 - Cox v. WM Heroman & Co., Inc. · Jefferson v. Jefferson · 318 So. 2d 618 - Townsend v. Cleve Heyl Chevrolet-Buick, Inc. · Cooper v. Lytle
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.
“[i]t is sufficient to interrupt prescription that a cause of action be asserted that is adequate to put the defendant on notice of the nature of the claim against him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is not necessary that the action be brought by the correct plaintiff or that he sue in the proper procedural capacity.”
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.