Liles v. Pitts’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably Arnold v. Sun Oil Co. (1949), Reynaud v. Bullock (1940)
77 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 Cowell v. Springs Co. · John T. Moore Planting Co. v. Morgan's Louisiana & T. R. & S. S. Co. · Mining Company v. Taylor · McClung v. Ross · Lessee of George Clymer et al. v. George Dawkins et al.
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The burden of proof to establish * * prescription rests on him making the plea.' Chapman v. Morris Bldg. & Land Improvement Ass'n., 108 La. 283 , 32 South 371 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When a person's possession commenced for another, it is supposed to continue always under the same title, unless there be proof to the contrary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“continuous and uninterrupted during all the time; it must be public and unequivocal, and under the title of owner”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Phillips v. West
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.