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81 So. 2d 124 - Knott v. Litton’s Empirical Analysis

1955

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
June 1975
most recently cited

8 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1975

8 state decisions

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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 Cust v. Item Co. · 15 La. Ann. 583 - Irwin v. Scribner · Duggan v. City of New Orleans

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

  1. “He who causes another person to do an unlawful act, or assists or encourages in the commission of it, is answerable, in solido, with that person, for the damage caused by such act.”
    2 later decisions 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.