655 So. 2d 1381 - Stonecipher v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions

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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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a]n obligation may be solidary though it derives from a different source for each obligor.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 670 So. 2d 748 - Sanders v. Zeagler · 691 So. 2d 1245 - Osborne v. Ladner

2. “Damages for nonpecuniary loss may be recovered when the contract, because of its nature, is intended to gratify a nonpecuniary interest and, because of the circumstances surrounding the formation or the nonperformance of the contract, the obligor knew, or should have known, that his failure to perform would cause that kind of loss.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Taylor v. Burton · 712 So. 2d 1011 - Melancon v. Sunshine Const., Inc.

3. “The trial court's factual findings are accorded great deference. Virgil v. American Guarantee and Liability Ins. Co., 507 So.2d 825 (La.1987). If the trial court's findings are reasonable in light of the record reviewed in its entirety, the court of appeal may not reverse even if convinced that had it been sitting as trier of fact, it would have weighed the evidence differently. Rosell v. ESCO, 549 So.2d 840 (La. 1989). When a factfinder's determination is based on its decision to credit the testimony of one or more witnesses, that finding can virtually never be clearly wrong or manifestly erroneous. Rosell, supra.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Taylor v. Burton