In re Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 1997
6 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.
Most-quoted passages
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““Although the trial judge did not give any written reasons for his judgment, we learn from the attorneys for the litigants that the decision of the trial judge was based on the ground that the petition failed to disclose a justiciable controversy. “This action is based on our Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act, Act No. 431 of 1948 and Act No. 22 of Ex. Sess. of 1948, now LSA-R.S. 13 :4231 through 13:4246. Although this Act has not been interpreted by our courts, yet it being the Uniform Act it is now well settled by other courts of the several states that a proceeding for a declaratory judgment must be based upon an actual controversy. The term 'actual controversy’ has been given a broad construction. * * * ””
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.