78 So. 2d 424 - Lyons v. Goodman’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2014
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 Succession of Pizzillo · Succession of Pizzati · Brand v. Mornhinveg · Owles v. Jackson · State Ex Rel. Monroe v. Ford
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That any person above the age of twenty-one years shall have the right, by act to be passed before any parish recorder or notary public, to adopt any child under the age of twenty-one years; provided, that if such child shall have a parent or parents, or tutor, that the concurrence of such parent or parents or tutor shall be obtained, and as evidence thereof shall be required to sign said act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Succession of Hilton““The jurisprudence of Louisiana is well settled to the effect that any instrument which has been lost or destroyed may be proved by secondary evidence. The manner of proof varies with the nature and kind of document.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robinson v. Smith
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.