Howard v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 1983
15 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 Sanders v. Sanders · Agricultural Supply Co. v. Lavigne · Dorsey v. Ashford
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * We concede the principles of law urged on behalf of defendants that the charge of fraud is most serious; that the burden of establishing fraud rests upon the one who alleges its existence, which burden is discharged only by legal and convincing evidence; that fraud is never presumed and that it must be established by exceptionally strong proof. Sanders v. Sanders, 222 La. 233 , 62 So.2d 284 , and cases cited therein. "However, we point out the equally well recognized principle that the action `en declaration de simulation' falls in a category of fraudulent conduct which, under our jurisprudence, is somewhat less demanding of, and less burdensome upon, the party who alleges the simulation.”
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.