Ducre v. Milner’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Smith v. Chappell (1933), Quatre Parish Co. v. Beauregard Parish School Board (1952)
2 federal appellate · 22 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.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This is a petitory action and the title relied upon by plaintiff does not convey to him any part of the property he is suing to recover. The trial judge properly sustained the defendant’s exceptions of no cause and no right of action and dismissed the suit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ducre v. Milner
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.