Busby v. Osborne’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““On trial of the case defendant’s counsel objected to all parol testimony attempting to show that plaintiff was an accommodation party to the instrument sued on or that Osborne or his estate was obligated to plaintiff thereunder. This objection was based on LSA-R.S. 13:3721, providing that parol evidence is inadmissible for the purpose of proving any debt or liability on the part of a decedent when suit upon such obligation has been brought more than twelve months after death. The testimony was properly excluded by the trial court and it follows that, in default of any evidence establishing the indebtedness, plaintiff has no right to recovery.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Succession of Dollinger