Morello v. Viola’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1974
6 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 Sims v. New Orleans Ry. & Light Co. · Martin v. Texas Co. · Antoine v. Franichevich · Hyman Hiller & Co. v. New Orleans, M. & C. R. · Brown v. Staples
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is settled jurisprudence that when a party to a suit fails to testify to cardinal facts obviously within his knowledge and vital in determining the just result of the litigation the presumption exists that his testimony, if adduced, would be unfavorable. Morello v. Viola, La.App., 66 So.2d 29 .”
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.