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← 786 SO2D 897 - Dorsett v. Johnson

Dorsett v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
March 2017
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Eanes v. McKnight · 703 So. 2d 709 - Delaney v. Whitney Nat. Bank · 442 So. 2d 627 - Sibley v. Insured Lloyds · Womack v. Sternberg · 607 So. 2d 865 - Bond v. Broadway

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

  1. “could reasonably have been viewed as having been made early by Holt, since the funds required to meet the October and November payments were received in September and October. Under La. C.C. art.1996, an obligor in good faith is liable for only the damages that were foreseeable at the time the contract was made. However, an obligor in bad faith is liable for all damages, whether or not foreseeable, that are a direct consequence of the failure to perform. La. C.C. art.1997. The comments to art. 1997 state that”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[a]n obligor is in bad faith if he intentionally and maliciously fails to perform his obligation.”
    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.