616 So. 2d 657 - Bouterie v. Crane’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Wimberly v. Gatch (1994), 891 So. 2d 1268 - Bailey v. Khoury (2005)
2 federal appellate · 37 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 595 So. 2d 624 - Lima v. Schmidt · 375 So. 2d 1319 - Corsey v. State, Through Dept. of Corrections · Plaquemines Par. Com'n Council v. Delta Dev. Co. · State v. Barras · Foster v. Breaux
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) where there was some legal cause which prevented the courts or their officers from taking cognizance of or acting on the plaintiff's action; (2) where there was some condition coupled with the contract or connected with the proceedings which prevented the creditor from suing or acting; (3) where the debtor himself has done some act effectually to prevent the creditor from availing himself of his cause of action; and (4) where the cause of action is not known or reasonably knowable by the plaintiff even though his ignorance is not induced by the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“as to who had the responsibility and procedural capacity to represent the unemancipated minor in suit since the minor's natural father was an absentee, her natural mother temporarily lost legal custody, her legal custody was adjudicated to the State and her physical custody was placed with her aunt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“... an attorney appointed by the court having jurisdiction over an un-emancipated minor who is in the legal custody of the Department of Social Services is the proper plaintiff to sue to enforce a right of an un-emancipated minor....”
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.