76 Louisiana opinions name it 2 courts 1960–2025 4 in the last five years
The cases below were cited by Louisiana courts in a sentence that names this issue. Sides come from how each citing opinion treated the case (Syfertize flag on that citation), so a case can appear on both: that is where the law is contested. A red or yellow chip is the case's own overall treatment.
| Case | Followed | Cited |
|---|---|---|
Corsey v. State, Through Dept. of Correctionsgreen2 sentences2011Landry v. Blaise, 2002-0822 (La.App. 4 Cir. 10/23/02) , 829 So.2d 661 , citing Corsey v. State of Louisiana, Through the Department of Corrections, 375 So.2d 1319, 1321-22 (La.1979). 1996Mrs. Hoerner asserts that the fourth category of the judicially created doctrine of contra non valentem, as set forth in Corsey v. State, Through Dept. of Corrections, 375 So.2d 1319, 1322 (La.1979) applies here: her cause of action was not known or reasonably knowable, although her ignorance was not induced by the defendants' conduct. | 6 | 9 |
Spruiell v. Ludwiggreen2 sentences2025In Spruiell v. Ludwig, 568 So.2d 133, 138 (La.App. 5 Cir.1990), writ denied 573 So.2d 1117 (La.1991), this Court stated the law on the doctrine of contra non valentem: A judicially created exception to the running of liberative prescription is afforded by the doctrine of contra non valentem agere nulla currit praescriptio, (prescription does not run against one who is unable to act). 1996In Spruiell v. Ludwig, 568 So.2d 133 at 138 (La.App. 5 Cir.1990), writ denied 573 So.2d 1117 (La.1991), this Court stated the law on the doctrine of contra non valentem agere nulla currit praescriptio: A judicially created exception to the running of liberative prescription is afforded by the doctrine of contra non valentem agere nulla currit praescriptio, (prescription does not run against one who is unable to act). | 2 | 2 |
Bell v. Jet Wheel Blast, Div. of Ervin Industriesgreen2 sentences2017Rozell v. Louisiana Animal Breeders Co-op., Inc., 496 So.2d 275, 279 (La. 1986); Bell v. Jet Wheel Blast, 462 So.2d 166, 169 (La.1985). 2002Rozell v. Louisiana Animal Breeders Co-op., Inc., 496 So.2d 275, 279 (La.1986); Bell v. Jet Wheel Blast, 462 So.2d 166, 169 (La. 1985). | 2 | 2 |
Rozell v. Louisiana Animal Breeders Co-Op., Inc.green2 sentences2017Rozell v. Louisiana Animal Breeders Co-op., Inc., 496 So.2d 275, 279 (La. 1986); Bell v. Jet Wheel Blast, 462 So.2d 166, 169 (La.1985). 2002Rozell v. Louisiana Animal Breeders Co-op., Inc., 496 So.2d 275, 279 (La.1986); Bell v. Jet Wheel Blast, 462 So.2d 166, 169 (La. 1985). | 2 | 2 |
Sistler v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.green2 sentences1998Sistler v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, 558 So.2d 1106, 1112 (La.1990). 1996Sistler v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, 558 So.2d 1106, 1112 (La.1990). | 2 | 2 |
Hebert v. Doctors Memorial Hosp.green2 sentences1997Hebert v. Doctors Memorial Hospital, 486 So.2d 717, 724 (La.1986). [4] Contra non valentem is a judicially-created doctrine which has been applied to prevent the running of prescription in four distinct situations: (1) where there was some legal cause which prevented the courts or their officers from taking cognizance of or acting on the plaintiff's action; (2) where there was some condition coupled with the contract or connected with the proceedings which prevented the creditor from suing or acting; (3) where the debtor himself has done some act effectually to prevent the creditor from availi 1986See Hebert v. Doctors Memorial Hospital, 486 So.2d 717 (La.1986). | 2 | 2 |
Chaney v. State Through Dept. of Healthgreen2 sentences2021R.S. 9:56281 “has in a limited manner legislatively overruled the fourth exception of the judicially created doctrine of contra non valentum as it applies to medical malpractice actions filed more than three years after the date of the act, omission or neglect.” Chaney, 432 So.2d at 259 ; Rajnowski, 564 So.2d at 674 . 1991In Chaney v. State through Department of Health and Human Resources, 432 So.2d 256 (La.1983), the Louisiana Supreme Court held that LSA-R.S. 9:5628 "legislatively overruled the fourth exception of the judicially created doctrine of *582 contra non valentem as it applies to actions for medical malpractice filed more than three years from the date of the act, omission or neglect." Appellants in this case argue that the third category of contra non valentem applies in this situation and operates to stop the running of prescription because they allege that appellee effectually prevented them from | 1 | 5 |
Board of Comm'rs. of Port of New Orleans v. Splendour S. & E. Co.green2 sentences2014In Splendour, supra, decided in 1973 while the constitutional convention was under way, this court found that in Louisiana sovereign or governmental immunity was a judicially-created doctrine, which was outmoded and which was inconsistent with the state’s policy of requiring that state agencies either “act responsibly, or be subject to answer in court.” 273 So.2d at 26 . 2014In Splendour, supra, decided in 1973 while the constitutional convention was under way, this court found that in Louisiana sovereign or governmental immunity was a judicially-created doctrine, which was outmoded and which was inconsistent with the state’s policy of requiring that state agencies either “act responsibly, or be subject to answer in court.” 273 So.2d at 26 . | 1 | 4 |
Pargas, Inc. v. Estate of Taylorgreen2 sentences1987Pargas, Inc. v. Estate of Taylor, 416 So.2d 1358, 1362 (La.App. 3d Cir.1982); Lilliedahl & Mitchel, Inc. v. Avoyelles Trust and Savings, 352 So.2d 781, 787 (La.App. 3d Cir.1977). 1985The judicially created doctrine of apparent authority has two requirements: (1) The principal must make some form of manifestation to an innocent third party; and, (2) The third party must rely reasonably on the purported authority of the agent as a result of the principal's manifestations." Pargas, Inc. v. Estate of Taylor, 416 So.2d 1358 (La.App. 3 Cir.1982). | 1 | 4 |
Whitnell v. Menvillegreen2 sentences2018Whitnell , 540 So.2d at 308 . 1990Whitnell v. Menville, 540 So.2d 304, 308 (La.1989). | 1 | 2 |
Murray v. Ramada Inns, Inc.green2 sentences2011Civil Code art. 2323; see also Murray v. Ramada Inns, Inc., 521 So.2d 1123, 1132 (La.2/29/88) ("In 1979, the Louisiana Civil Code article 2323 was rewritten to eliminate the judicially created rule that contributory negligence was a complete bar to the plaintiffs recovery, and to substitute a procedure by which any negligence on the part of the plaintiff would operate as a percentage reduction of his recovery”). 3 . 1995In my view, the conclusion of the majority fails to take into adequate account the clear intent of La.Civ.Code art. 2323, which “was rewritten to eliminate the judicially created rule that contributory negligence was a complete bar to the plaintiffs recovery, and to substitute a procedure by which any negligence on the part of the plaintiff would |6operate as a percentage reduction of his recovery.” Murray v. Ramada Inns, Inc., 521 So.2d 1123 (La.1988). | 1 | 2 |
Belle Pass Terminal, Inc. v. Jolin, Inc.green2 sentences2007Belle Pass Terminal, Inc. v. Jolin, Inc., 01-0149 (La.10/16/01), 800 So.2d 762, 769 . 2002Belle Pass Terminal, Inc. v. Jolin, Inc., 01-0149 (La.10/16/01), 800 So.2d 762, 769 (per curiam opinion on rehearing). | 1 | 2 |
Lilliedahl & Mitchel v. Avoyelles Trust & Sav.green2 sentences1987Pargas, Inc. v. Estate of Taylor, 416 So.2d 1358, 1362 (La.App. 3d Cir.1982); Lilliedahl & Mitchel, Inc. v. Avoyelles Trust and Savings, 352 So.2d 781, 787 (La.App. 3d Cir.1977). 1982Lilliedahl & Mitchell, Inc. v. Avoyelles Trust and Savings, 352 So.2d 781 (La.App. 3rd Cir. 1977). | 1 | 2 |
Brumfield v. Dysongreen1 sentence2020The majority’s synthesis of a new rule, that the correctness of a prior panel’s ruling must stand unless new or additional information is added to a subsequent appeal, in my opinion, speaks more to diplomacy involved in publicly disagreeing with a fellow judge’s prior conclusion and less to providing an exception for the judicially created doctrine of “law of the case.”6 The very premise of appellate review is that a different judge on a different day can reach a different conclusion from the one who adjudicated it first.7 The final piece of the majority’s justification for vacating the defend | 1 | 1 |
Brice Building Co. v. Southland Steel Fabricators, Inc.green1 sentence2016Favalora bases this argument on the judicially created doctrine that an arbitration award may be overturned when the arbitrator commits an error “which is obvious and capable of being readily and instantly percéived by an average person qualified to serve as an arbitrator,” thereby implying that “the arbitrator appreciates the existence of a clearly governing legal principle but decides to ignore it.” Brice, 2015-1110, p. 5, 194 So.3d at 1289 (citations omitted). | 1 | 1 |
Land v. Vidrinegreen1 sentence2016See Land v. Vidrine, 10-1342 (La. 3/15/11), 62 So.3d 36 (“Failure to timely file a writ application on a venue ruling amounts to a waiver of any objection thereto.”). | 1 | 1 |
Tracy Ray Lomont v. Michelle Myer-Bennett and Xyz Insurance Companygreen1 sentence2015Lomont v. Bennett, 14-2483, p. 24 (La.6/30/15), 172 So.3d 620, 637 (citing Fontenot v. ABC Ins. | 1 | 1 |
| Anderson v. Douglas & Lomason Co.green | 1 | 1 |
| Apex Oil Co. v. City of Port Allengreen | 1 | 1 |
| New Orleans Pub. Serv. Inc. v. City Council of New Orleansgreen | 1 | 1 |
| Smith v. West Virginia Oil & Gas Co.green | 1 | 1 |
| Giallanza v. LOUISIANA PUBLIC SERV. COM'Ngreen | 1 | 1 |
| Securities & Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corp.green | 1 | 1 |
| Save Ourselves, Inc. v. La. Environ. Cont. Com'ngreen | 1 | 1 |
| Schillaci v. Schillacigreen | 1 | 1 |
| Schillaci v. Schillacigreen | 1 | 1 |
| Patterson v. Cargo Servicesgreen | 1 | 1 |
| Case | Negative | Cited |
|---|---|---|
| No negative-treatment citations attached to this issue in Louisiana. Read the followed side critically anyway. | ||
| Case | Cited | Years |
|---|---|---|
State v. Searle
green
2 sentences2022Searle involved an appeal from a simple burglary conviction wherein the jury had been instructed on the judicially created rule that " unexplained possession of property recently stolen at the time of a burglary creates a presumption that the possessor committed the burglary." Searle, 339 So. 2d at 1198 . 2022The evidence against the defendant in Searle consisted of his possession of a stereo, assorted stereo tapes and a rug stolen in the burglary of the residence, his statement to a friend that he had obtained the items from the residence, and a request to the friend not to " say anything to anyone." Searle, 339 So. 2d at 1197 . | 4 | 1984–2022 |
Reeder v. North
green
2 sentences2015Reeder v. North, 97-0239 (La.10/21/97), 701 So.2d 1291 , 1298 n. 4. . 2008Reeder v. North, 701 So.2d at 1298 . | 4 | 2000–2015 |
Crier v. Whitecloud
green
2 sentences2011Crier v. Whitecloud, 496 So.2d 305 , 307 n. 4 (La.1986)(on reh’g). 2001Crier v. Whitecloud, 496 So.2d 305 , 307 n. 4 (La.1986)(on reh'g). | 3 | 2000–2011 |
Landry v. Blaise, Inc.
green
2 sentences2011Landry v. Blaise, 2002-0822 (La.App. 4 Cir. 10/23/02) , 829 So.2d 661 , citing Corsey v. State of Louisiana, Through the Department of Corrections, 375 So.2d 1319, 1321-22 (La.1979). 2008Landry v. Blaise, XXXX-XXXX, p. 5 (La.App. 4 Cir. 10/23/02), 829 So.2d 661, 665 , citing Corsey v. State of Louisiana, Through the Department of Corrections, 375 So.2d 1319, 1321-22 (La.1979). | 3 | 2003–2011 |
Plaquemines Par. Com'n Council v. Delta Dev. Co.
green
2 sentences1997Plaquemines Parish Commission Council v. Delta Development Co., 502 So.2d 1034 (La.1987); Corsey v. State Through Dept. of Corrections, 375 So.2d 1319 (La. 1979). [5] The court of appeal also erroneously relied on the Fourth Circuit's opinion in Jure v. Barker, 619 So.2d 717 (La.App. 4th Cir. 1993). 1990Plaquemines Parish Commission Council v. Delta Development Co., Inc., 502 So.2d 1034 (La.1987); Corsey v. State Department of Corrections, 375 So.2d 1319 (La. 1979). | 3 | 1989–1997 |
State v. Goins
green
2 sentences2025In Spruiell v. Ludwig, 568 So.2d 133, 138 (La.App. 5 Cir.1990), writ denied 573 So.2d 1117 (La.1991), this Court stated the law on the doctrine of contra non valentem: A judicially created exception to the running of liberative prescription is afforded by the doctrine of contra non valentem agere nulla currit praescriptio, (prescription does not run against one who is unable to act). 1996In Spruiell v. Ludwig, 568 So.2d 133 at 138 (La.App. 5 Cir.1990), writ denied 573 So.2d 1117 (La.1991), this Court stated the law on the doctrine of contra non valentem agere nulla currit praescriptio: A judicially created exception to the running of liberative prescription is afforded by the doctrine of contra non valentem agere nulla currit praescriptio, (prescription does not run against one who is unable to act). | 2 | 1996–2025 |
Wimberly v. Gatch
green
2 sentences2003The underlying basis for the doctrine is that "equity and justice ... demand that under certain circumstances, prescription be suspended because a plaintiff was effectually prevented from enforcing his rights for reasons external to his own will." Wimberly v. Gatch, 93-2361 (La.4/11/94), 635 So.2d 206, 211 . 1995Id. at 211 . | 2 | 1995–2003 |
Carter v. Haygood
green
1 sentence2022I don’t think that’s the case.” Under the fourth category of contra non valentem, prescription does not run where the cause of action is not known or reasonably knowable by the plaintiff, even though this ignorance is not induced by the defendant.3 3 Contra non valentem is a judicially created exception to the general rule of prescription based on the civilian doctrine of contra non valentem agere nulla currit 13 Carter v. Haygood, 04-0646 (La. 1/19/05), 892 So. 2d 1261 . | 1 | 2022–2022 |
Rajnowski v. St. Patrick's Hosp.
green
1 sentence2021R.S. 9:56281 “has in a limited manner legislatively overruled the fourth exception of the judicially created doctrine of contra non valentum as it applies to medical malpractice actions filed more than three years after the date of the act, omission or neglect.” Chaney, 432 So.2d at 259 ; Rajnowski, 564 So.2d at 674 . | 1 | 2021–2021 |
Brumfield v. Dyson
green
1 sentence2020App. 1 Cir.), writ denied, 422 So.2d 162 (La.1982): It has been said that this doctrine [of law of the case] is merely one of practice or court policy, and not of inflexible law, so that appellate courts are not absolutely bound thereby, but may exercise a certain degree of discretion in its application. | 1 | 2020–2020 |
Forterra Capital, L.L.C. v. Mamal, Inc.
green
1 sentence2020The holding of the district court invoking only a judicially created exception and allocation of fault award40 exceeds the authority that has been bestowed by the 39 See Forterra Capital, L.L.C. v. Mamal, Inc., 10-0798 (La.App. 4 Cir. 1/13/11) , 55 So.3d 963 (transfer of machines used to clean tanks on offshore supply vessels and all present and future rights thereto by judgment debtor did not increase his insolvency, for purposes of action by judgment creditor to annul transfer on the basis that judgment creditor attempts to collect a debt owed to it, where judgment debtor's balance sheet ind | 1 | 2020–2020 |
Succession of King
neutral
1 sentence2017The 2001 Revision Comment in that Act, although not controlling, is most significant and indicative of legislative intent: The 2001 amendment is intended to legislatively overrule Succession of King , 595 So.2d 805 (La. | 1 | 2017–2017 |
Suhren v. Gibert
green
1 sentence2015The statute expressly delineates that the time limitations set forth therein “shall not be subject to suspension on any grounds or interruption except by timely filed suit_” [Emphasis supplied.] Suhren v. Gihert, 10-0767, p. 10 (La.App. 4 Cir. 1/12/11), 55 So.3d 941, 947 . | 1 | 2015–2015 |
| STATE, DOTD v. Williamson green | 1 | 2014–2014 |
| Hillman v. Akins green | 1 | 2013–2013 |
| Derrick v. YAMAHA POWER SPORTS green | 1 | 2010–2010 |
| Quebedeaux v. Dow Chemical Co. green | 1 | 2009–2009 |
| Fontenot v. ABC Ins. Co. green | 1 | 2007–2007 |
| Williams v. Delta Haven, Inc. green | 1 | 2002–2002 |
| South Cent. Bell Telephone Co. v. PSC green | 1 | 2001–2001 |
| Boutte v. Jefferson Parish Hospital Service District No. 1 neutral | 1 | 2000–2000 |
| American Casualty Co. v. Security Industrial Insurance Co. neutral | 1 | 2000–2000 |
| State v. Branch neutral | 1 | 2000–2000 |
| Compeaux v. PLAISANCE INSPECTION & ENT. green | 1 | 1999–1999 |
| Boudoin v. NICHOLSON, BAEHR, ETC. green | 1 | 1998–1998 |
| Jure v. Barker yellow | 1 | 1997–1997 |
| Chamberlain v. State, Through DOTD green | 1 | 1997–1997 |
| Smith v. West Virginia Oil & Gas Co. green | 1 | 1992–1992 |
| Southern Builders, Inc. v. Carla Charcoal, Inc. green | 1 | 1992–1992 |
| General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. Daniels green | 1 | 1991–1991 |
| Harvey v. Davis green | 1 | 1991–1991 |
| State v. Brown green | 1 | 1986–1986 |
| Crier v. Whitecloud green | 1 | 1986–1986 |
| State v. Morales neutral | 1 | 1986–1986 |
| Maynor v. Maynor green | 1 | 1979–1979 |
| Thomason v. Thomason green | 1 | 1979–1979 |
| Wood v. Wood neutral | 1 | 1979–1979 |
| In Re WINSHIP green | 1 | 1979–1979 |
| Davis v. Davis neutral | 1 | 1979–1979 |
| Bass v. SERVICE PIPE TRUCKING COMPANY INC. green | 1 | 1976–1976 |
Counted by distinct opinions that both name this issue and are annotated to the section; sections every opinion cites regardless of issue are not filtered here, so read the counts against the total above.
Opinions by the citing court's state. A doctrine retained in one state and abandoned in another shows up here as a year span that stalls.