Rownd v. Davidson’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 1985
14 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 State v. Melvin · Goothye v. Delatour
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The power of attorney is in the usual form, and authorized the agent to sell all the real property of the principal situated in the parish of Livingston. The power was special and express, and not general and indefinite. The objection that the real estate was not specially described is without force. In Boykin v. Wright, 11 La.Ann. 535 , it seems to have been taken for granted that a power to sell all the principal’s lands in a certain parish was sufficient. It has been held in California and Kansas that ‘an authority to sell all of the land belonging to the principal is good without a particular description of the property.’ See Am. & Eng.Ency.Law (2d Ed.) vol. 1, p. 1007, note 3. We concur in this doctrine as reasonable.””
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.