Long v. Chailan’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably Hill v. Richey (1952), Jacobs v. Southern Advance Bag & Paper Company (1955)
39 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 Leader Realty Co. v. Taylor · Long v. Chailan · Chamberlain v. Abadie · Ellis v. Prevost · Charbonnet v. State Realty 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““According to article 3518 of the Civil Code the filing of the previous suits had the effect of interrupting "the prescription which is pleaded in "this suit. But, according to article ■3519, as amended by Act No. 107 ■of 1898, the effect of the plaintiffs’ .allowing five years to elapse without •taking any steps in the prosecution of -their suits was to do away with the interruption of prescription — so completely that ‘the interruption shall be considered as having never happened.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The plea of prescription of thirty years is not sustained by the evidence, because the land, being for the most part swamp or timber land, was never fenced or enclosed. The prescription of thirty years, by which a title to land may be acquired by a possessor who has neither deed nor good faith, cannot prevail beyond the area actually possessed, or beyond such an inclosure or such physical boundaries as will show the extent to which the possessor intends to possess.”
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.