McRae v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 2011
4 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 Felder v. Georgia Pac. Corp.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A transaction or compromise is an agreement between two or more persons, who, for preventing or putting an end to a lawsuit, adjust their differences by mutual consent, in the manner which they agree on, and which every one of them prefers to the hope of gaining, balanced by the danger of losing. This contract must be either reduced into writing or recited in open court and capable of being transcribed from the record of the proceeding. The agreement recited in open court confers upon each of them the right of judicially enforcing its performance, although its substance may thereafter be written in a more convenient form. [Italics original; emphasis added.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In fact, the letter from the defendants' attorney ... which accompanied these documents, required the plaintiff to sign the documents `prior to transacting on the check.' That language itself indicates that the defendants considered their mailing the draft and the closing documents to McRae's attorney as an offer, which could have been accepted by Ms. Mcrae through the signing of the closing documents, in order to perfect the proposed compromise agreement. (Emphasis original)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[W]here two instruments, when read together, outline the obligations each party has to the other and evidence each party's acquiescence in the agreement, a written compromise agreement, as contemplated by La.C.C. art. 3071 has been perfected. Id. 405 So.2d at 523-524 (emphasis added).”
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.