Dillon v. Freville’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
2 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 1992 · most notably Kittredge v. Grau (1925), Funderburk v. Funderburk (1949)
2 district · 27 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 Lawson v. Ripley · Succession of Boyer · Tutorship of Minor Heirs & Succession of Kidd · Sims v. Billington · 2 La. Ann. 30 - Depas v. Riez
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Improvements erected during marriage on the separate property of one of the spouses, even though made with community funds, belong to the owner of the soil, subject only to the duty of paying to the community at its dissolution the enhanced value of the property resulting therefrom.” Dillon v. Dillon, 35 La. Ann. 92 (syllabus); Dillon v. Freville, 129 La. 1015 , 57 So. 316 . “The separate estate cannot be charged with the cost of improvements, but only with the enhanced value of the property. C. C. art. 2408; Depas v. Riez, 2 La. Ann. 43 ; Succession of McClelland, 14 La. Ann. 763 ; Succession of Roth, 33 La. Ann. 540 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Peters v. Klein“It is settled that the recompense due by the separate estate of the wife for improvements placed thereon, during marriage, at the expense of the eormunity, is the enhanced value resulting to her separate estate, from the improvements at the date -of the dissolution of the community”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. Manning““Her share of community property adjudicated to surviving widow $326.66, 5 per cent, interest thereon from February 28, 1901, from date of adjudication to November 5, 1908.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dillon v. Freville
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.