Riddle v. Bickford’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

27 state decisions

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

1. “Unlike the criminal context, there is no United States or Louisiana constitutional right to trial by jury in a civil case in Louisiana courts. The right to jury trials in civil cases is not so fundamental to the American system of justice as to be required of state courts by the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment. There is also no constitutional corollary regarding the right to full voir dire examination and peremptory challenges in civil cases. In Louisiana courts, the right to a jury trial in a civil case is provided for by statute, namely La. C.C.P. arts. 1731 through 1814. La. C.C.P. art. 1731(A) provides that “[e]x-cept as limited by Article 1732, the right of trial by jury is recognized.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 951 So. 2d 1258 - Castillo v. Clerk of Court for the 29th Judicial District Court of St. Charles Parish

2. “(1) A suit where the amount of no individual petitioner’s cause of action exceeds fifty thousand dollars exclusive of interest and costs.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Campbell v. Davenport

3. “jury trial is not timely requested or sufficient bond not timely filed, the litigant loses the statutory right to a jury trial.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 247 So. 3d 778 - Gaspard v. Horace Mann Ins. Co.