708 So. 2d 1292 - Picard v. Picard’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 2018
5 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 342 So. 2d 661 - Samuels v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. · 302 So. 2d 297 - EL Burns Co., Inc. v. Cashio · 471 So. 2d 851 - Feazel v. Feazel · Harmon v. Harmon · Harmon v. Harmon
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person who has a right to enforce an obligation also has a right to use his cause of action as a defense. Except as otherwise provided herein a prescribed obligation arising under Louisiana Law may be used as a defense if it is incidental to, or connected with, the obligation sought to be enforced by the plaintiff....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An extrajudicial partition may be rescinded on account of lesion if the value of the part received by a co-owner is less by more than one-fourth of the fair market value of the portion he should have received.”
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.