State v. Aucoin’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2011
19 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
Applies 43 U.S.C. § 751 · 43 U.S.C. § 752 · 43 U.S.C. § 982
Relies on Cox v. Hart · Cragin v. Powell · The Montello · Atchafalaya Land Co. v. F. B. Williams Cypress Co. · United States v. Morrison
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When lands have been disposed of by the government according to a line appearing on an official plat of a government survey, approved by the Surveyor General, the location of the line shown on the official plat is controlling.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“when said conveyances are so recorded, the title to said land, with the possession thereof, shall from thenceforth vest absolutely in said board of levee commissioners, its successors or grantees”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is that which, by its depth, width, and location is rendered available for commerce whether it be actually so used or not.” (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Monroe v. State
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.