Picone v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably 611 So. 2d 1383 - Williams v. Sewerage & Water Bd. of NO (1993), Fishbein v. State ex rel. Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (2005)
4 federal appellate · 25 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 Martinez v. California · Chase Securities Corp. v. Donaldson · 366 So. 2d 1381 - Burmaster v. Gravity Drainage Dist. No. 2 · Crier v. Whitecloud · 281 So. 2d 724 - Pearson v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The common law doctrine of laches does not prevail in Louisiana and the legislature may create, shorten, lengthen or abolish prescriptive periods at its discretion.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]nterruption of prescription for solidary obligors is rationally related to the state's interest in providing full compensation to tort victims and holding defendants responsible for their delicts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Delictual actions are subject to a liberative prescription of one year.”
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.