Giroir v. Dumesnil’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 1984
3 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 California Company v. Price · Quarles v. Lewis · Succession of Fertel · Succession of Lambert · Succession of Price
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Be it known that on this seventh day of the month of August, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred eighteen, Before me, “Charles Amedee Celestin, Notary Public duly qualified and sworn, and in the presence of Messrs. Norman L. Davidson, Allen Arceneaux, Noel Duplantis “Legal and competent witnesses, domiciled in the vicinity, personally appeared Mr. Benjamin Dumesnil, also of the said Parish, who declared that, being sound in body and mind, and convinced of the frailty of human life, he desires this day to set in order his worldly affairs in the event he is called by our Creator, and to make his last dispositions or testament, which he dictated to me and which I have transcribed exactly and literally as dictated. “In consideration of the true and sincere friendship and the good and continuous care which, up to this time, has been bestowed upon me by my wife MARIE BOUDREAUX “I bequeath and give to my said wife, MARIE BOUDREAUX “The enjoyment and usufruct during her life span of all of the property, movable and immovable (of which I can dispose under the law) of any nature and under any title whatsoever, which I may possess at my death, for her to do with, enjoy and dispose of as she pleases, and as a thing belonging to her. “I appoint, my said wife, Executrix, of this my last testament without surety and with seizin of my succession, and I ratify these presents as containing my last will and testament.” (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Giroir v. Dumesnil
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.