700 So. 2d 958 - Hebert v. Hebert’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2017
1 federal appellate · 12 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 388 So. 2d 377 - Dubroc v. Dubroc · 307 So. 2d 563 - Nethken v. Nethken · Walder v. Walder · Seifert v. Seifert · Bernard v. FIRESIDE COMMERCIAL LIFE INS. CO., INC.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t matters not that plaintiff styled [an] action for nullity as a motion to rescind a consent judgment, a device not found in the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure. The nature of the pleading is controlling, not the title.”
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.