Caldwell v. Caldwell’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 1985
21 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 23 So. 2d 661 - Vega v. Higgins Industries · York v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours Co. · Spears v. Brown Paper Mill Co. · Union Homestead Ass'n v. Montegut · Succession of Morere
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The Workmen's Compensation Law, LSA-R.S. 23:1021, et seq., applies only to persons `performing services arising out of and incidental to his employment', etc. Employment means, of course, an engagement or contract to perform or render some sort of service to the one to whom such service is due."”
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.