Opdenwyer v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
155 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 157 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Sessum v. Hemperley (1957), Emmer v. Rector (1932)
155 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 Harang v. Golden Ranch Land & Drainage Co. · Broussard v. Guidry · Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Railway Co. v. LeRosen · Wemple v. Albritton · Zeringue v. Harang's Administrator
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 157 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is our firm conviction that the public interest requires that boundaries established for more than 30 years should not be disturbed; and we think the law so provides.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““As long as there exist no physical bounds, whether because none have ever been placed or because those once placed have disappeared, the action to place or replace them cannot be prescribed against; for every one is entitled at all times to have his estate separated from that of his neighbor, R. C. C. art. 825. But if visible bounds actually exist, which have been placed there by consent, the action to rectify any alleged error in the location thereof must be brought within ten years, or it will be prescribed. R. C. C. Art. 853.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Kobler v. Koch · Carr v. Geoghegan“`Defendant and her authors having had possession, we maintain the prescription of 30 years.'”
2 later decisions 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.