Ledet v. Hogue’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 2016
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 Dipson Theatres, Inc. v. Buffalo Theatres, Inc. · 346 So. 2d 193 - Haskins v. Clary · Allstate Ins. Co. v. Theriot · Mississippi Coast Marine, Inc. v. Bosarge · Voris v. Texas Employers Ins.
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.
“denial of a carrier's right to intervene in the case would run counter to the policy of prompt payment since it would place the insurer in the precarious position of choosing between possible penalties for not paying compensation benefits later determined to be payable or paying benefits for which it was not liable and later not being able to recover those payments.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“erroneously paid for plaintiff's injuries received in the second accident (sued upon by plaintiff herein) because plaintiff never informed intervenor of the second accident, ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Elliott v. Glass“underlying purpose of worker's compensation laws ... is to facilitate prompt payments to an injured worker”
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.