Snelling v. Adair’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 117 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Blevins v. Manufacturers Record Publishing Co. (1958), Monk v. Monk (1962)
9 federal appellate · 117 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 Sun Oil Co. v. Burns · Smith v. Chappell · Leader Realty Co. v. Taylor · Long v. Chailan · Reynaud v. Bullock
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a settled rule of law in this state that if a portion of the description of property in a deed is either erroneous or misleading, it is nevertheless susceptible of conveyance if the property intended to be conveyed by the parties can be ascertained with certainty by the aid of such extrinsic evidence as is admissible under the rules of evidence. Thornhill v. Burthe, 29 La. Ann. 639 ; Bryan v. Wisner, 44 La.Ann. 832 , 11 So. 290 ; Willis v. Ruddock Cypress Co., 108 La. 255 , 32 So. 386 ; Suthon v. Laws, 127 La. 531 , 53 So. 852 ; Suthon v. Viguerie, 127 La. 538 , 53 So. 855 ; Bayard v. Baldwin Lumber Co., 157 La. 994 , 103 So. 290 ; Tircuit v. Burton-Swartz Cypress Co., 162 La. 319 , 110 So. 489 ; Harrill v. Pitts, 194 La. 123 , 193 So. 562 ; 13 Cyc. 627; and 36 Cyc. 591. And ‘a deed, which was sufficient to convey property as between parties thereto * * * would be sufficient * * * basis upon which to rest plea of prescription of 10 years.’ Harrill v. Pitts, supra.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“" . . . it suffices if the description be `such as to enable the court to determine with certainty, with the aid of such extrinsic evidence as is admissible under the rules of evidence, what property was intended by the parties to be covered thereby. The description need not be given with such particularity as to make a resort to extrinsic evidence unnecessary,' . . ." 199 So. 788 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“continuous and uninterrupted, peaceable, public and unequivocal.”
2 later decisions 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.