Sagrera v. Mouton’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2003
11 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 Jeems Bayou Fishing & Hunting Club v. United States · Meyer v. Comegys · Consolidated Companies, Inc. v. Haas Land Co. · Ganucheau v. Monnot · Theriot v. Caffery
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * Monuments of the character mentioned are allowed to control, for the reason that in cases where the line is uncertain, but approximately in a given location, these guides are more permanent and possess less of the possibilities of error incident to courses, distances, and area; but when the basis for the rule ceases, as where, admittedly, the monument does not meet the calls of the deeds, then it cannot control, and must give way to the weaker guides. There being no courses or distances given in this case, the acreage or quantity prevails, and both parties receive thereby all that their deeds call for."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Under our jurisprudence, the order of importance or value of the various calls which may be included in a description are: (1) Natural monuments; (2) artificial monuments; (3) distances; (4) courses; and (5) quantity. But the controlling consideration in any case is the intention of the party or parties. * ⅜ ⅜ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sutton v. Montegut
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.