887 So. 2d 14 - Simpson v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2023
4 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 Loew's, Incorporated v. Don George, Inc. · 118 So. 2d 476 - Thomas v. Mobley · 393 So. 2d 94 - Union Service & Maintenance Co. v. Powell · 311 So. 2d 13 - Calvert v. Simon · Nolan v. JEFFERSON PAR. HOSP. SERV. DIST. NO. 2
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Louisiana courts have consistently held that an action for defamation arising out of allegations made in judicial proceedings and against a party to those proceedings cannot be brought until those proceedings are terminated. Loew’s, Inc. v. Don George, Inc., 237 La. 132 , 110 So.2d 553, 561 (1959); Nolan v. Jefferson Parish Hasp. Serv. Dist. No 2, 01-0175, p. 8 (La.App. 5 Cir. 6/27/01), 790 So.2d 725, 730 ; Ballex v. Naccari, 95-0057, p. 2 (La.App. 4 Cir. 6/7/95), 657 So.2d 511, 512 ; Grant v. Politz, 575 So.2d 915, 917 (La.App. 2 Cir.1991); Thomas v. Mobley, 118 So.2d 476, 483 (La.App. 1 Cir.1960). See also Justice Watson’s concurrence in Union Serv. & Maint. Co., Inc. v. Powell, 393 So.2d 94, 99 (La.1980). This rule allows the underlying litigation to proceed in an orderly manner, without the issue of defamation present. Ortiz v. Barriffe, 523 So.2d 896, 898 (La.App. 4 Cir.), writ denied, 531 So.2d 273 (La.1988); Calvert v. Simon, 311 So.2d 13, 17 (La.App. 4 Cir.1975).”
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.