Cupples v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Bologna Bros. v. Stephens (1944), Williams v. Bowie Lumber Co. (1948)
2 federal appellate · 34 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 Snelling v. Adair · Baldwin v. Arkansas-Louisiana Pipe Line Co. · 9 La. App. 434 - Hargrove v. Hodge · Glenn v. West · Crochet v. McCamant
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The description in a deed must be such that the property intended to be conveyed can be located and identified, and the general rule is that the description must fully appear within the four corners of the instrument itself, or that the deed should refer to some map, plat, or deed as a part of the description, so that the same may be clear.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““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.””
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.