Johnston v. Burton’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2006
14 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 Latham v. Glasscock · Mitcham v. Mitcham · Tulane University v. Board of Assessors · Succession of Coco · Woodward v. Thomas
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * And, in Louisiana, the succession itself does not own the property because, from the moment of death, the maxim `Le mort saisit le vif' applies and the property of the deceased person is transferred directly and immediately to the legal heir or, in the absence of forced heirs, to the universal legatee, `without any intermediate stage when it would be vested in the succession representative, or in the legal abstract called "succession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dion v. Knap“' See Succession of Coco, 185 La. 901 , 171 So. 70, 73 , and Tulane University v. Board of Assessors, 115 La. 1025 , 40 So. 445 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dion v. Knap
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.