Hutton v. Adkins’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1977
8 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 Taylor v. Williams · Slattery v. Heilperin · Keenan v. Baham · 15 La. Ann. 76 - Zeringue v. Williams · Bruton v. Braselton
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As against a possessor in good faith holding under a title translative of property, a plaintiff in a petitory action, to succeed, must establish title in himself perfect in character. Glover v. Haley et al., 118 La. 649 , 43 So. 265 . The converse of this principle is equally true. “It is axiomatic that in such an action a plaintiff must depend upon the strength of his own title rather than upon the weakness of his adversary’s in order to prevail. Code of Practice, Article 44. This implies, of course, that each side has and is asserting separate and distinct titles to the property in controversy. The rule is not so strict and the strength of plaintiff’s title need not be so great when the defendant depends upon possession alone, and especially,, as in the present case, possession of only a few years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roy v. Elmer““ ‘In a petitory action for a tract of land, if the plaintiff shows a title translative of property, and the defendant shows none, the plaintiff will recover.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roy v. Elmer““ ‘Even against a possessor in good faith, although without legal title, plaintiff in a petitory action must show that he has some title to the property.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roy v. Elmer
How this case has been treated — in progress
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