93 So. 2d 266 - Fuselier v. Hudson’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 1981
2 federal appellate · 6 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 Queensborough Land Co. v. Cazeaux · Wallenburg v. Kerry · Coreil v. Vidrine · 19 La. App. 567 - Collier v. Brown · Associated Motors, Inc. v. Burk
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.
““. . . where the promisor has a material interest in making the promise, and receives consideration therefor. In such an instance the promisor binds himself to pay the debt, making his own obligation the primary obligation. Coreil v. Vidrine, 188 La. 343 , 177 So. 233 ; Collier v. Brown, 19 La.App. 567 , 141 So. 405 ; Wallenburg v. Kerry, 16 La.App. 221 , 133 So. 823 .””
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.