Jackson v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 1984
4 federal appellate · 17 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 McDade v. Bossier Levee Board · Elder v. Ellerbe · 41 La. Ann. 494 - Heirs of Dohan v. Murdock · J. F. Ball & Bro. Lumber Co. v. Simms Lumber Co. · Leury v. Mayer
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And the fact is that, even if he had possessed in legal as well as actual good faith, he still would owe this accounting; since oil and other minerals taken from the land by a possesser in good faith continue to belong to the owner of the land, and therefore must be restored to this owner along with the land —unlike in that respect to fruits, which pass into the ownership of the possessor in good faith as soon as reduced to possession.””
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.