90 So. 2d 519 - Lyons v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2005
9 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 Morgan v. Brown · Levin v. Suffrin · Hyams v. Rogers
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Prescription in actions of lawyers for their fees does not commence to run until their services cease. Hyams & Jonas v. Rogers, 24 La.Ann. 230 . Prescription in an action for an attorney's fee, contingent upon the collection of a judgment obtained by him, begins to run not from the judgment but from the collection of the money under it. Morgan v. Brown, 12 La.Ann. 159 ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The following actions are prescribed by three years: * * * * * *”
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.