593 So. 2d 939 - Brown v. Simoneaux’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2018
9 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 Moak v. American Automobile Insurance Company · 394 So. 2d 1189 - Thornhill v. Black, Sivalls & Bryson, Inc. · 387 So. 2d 603 - Saunders v. NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC SERV., INC. · 122 So. 2d 109 - Tooke v. Houston Fire and Casualty Insurance Co. · 562 So. 2d 1099 - Shepherd v. Allstate Ins. Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Louisiana Civil Code expressly provides that a transaction or compromise between two or more parties, who by mutual consent adjust their differences to prevent or resolve a lawsuit, carries force equal to the authority of adjudicated disputes. La. C.C. art. 3071.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the language of the release is so broad and unambiguous it leaves little to be misunderstood”
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.