Dufrene v. Bernstein’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently October 2003 · most notably 106 So. 2d 490 - Randazzo v. Lucas (1958), 146 So. 2d 530 - Sohio Petroleum Company v. Hebert (1962)
65 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 Meyer v. Comegys · Administrators of Tulane Educational Fund v. Stair · Gaude v. Williams · Russell v. Producers' Oil Co. · Williams v. Close
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This Court has repeatedly held that where a party, as did the 'defendant in this caSe, declined to settle the boundary amicably with the adjacent owner and forced him .to resort to litigation, the provisions of Article 663 do not apply and equity requires that he should bear the burden of the costs if cast. Andrews v. Knox, 10 La.Ann. 604 ; Lacour v. Watson, 12 La.Ann. 214 ; Williams v. Close, 14 La.Ann. 737 ; Gaude v. Williams, 47 La.Ann. 1325 , 17 So. 844 ; Fairbanks v. La. Central Lumber Co., La.App., 163 So. 209 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"* * * In determining boundary lines, the law recognizes certain well known guides which are in the order of their importance (1) natural monuments; (2) artificial monuments; (3) distances; (4) courses; and (5) quantity * * *."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““He may compel his neighbors to fix and mark the limits of their estates which are contiguous to his. “The limits are established, and boundary stones or posts placed at their joint expense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lirette v. Duplantis
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.