Buchler v. Fourroux’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 1981
18 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 Johnson v. Browne · State v. Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana · Westwego Canal & Terminal Co. v. Pizanie · Osborn v. Nicholson · Lighting Fixture S. Co. v. Pacific Fire Ins. Co.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... there is a vast distinction between immovables by destination and immovables by nature. The status of an immovable by destination can be changed by an act of the landowner, but there is no provision of law that we are aware of, and none has been cited to that effect, that the act of the landowner, or any other person, can change the status of an immovable by nature.... The status of an immovable by nature is never changed by any act of the owner, while the status of an immovable by destination changes according to its use by the owner.... In the instant case, the status of the property could not be changed by the intention or act of the landowner because its status is fixed by law and does not depend upon its use." Buchler v. Fourroux, 193 La. at 477-78 , 190 So. at 650-51 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.