Dugas v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 1989 · most notably Dileo v. Dileo (1950), Bishop v. Copeland (1952)
32 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 McDuffie v. Walker · Tillery v. Fuller · National Park Bank v. Concordia Land & Timber Co. · Long v. Chailan · Tyson v. Spearman
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.
“Whatever fairly puts a person on inquiry is sufficient notice, where the means of knowledge are at hand; and if he omits to inquire, he is then chargeable with all the facts which, by a proper inquiry, he might have ascertained. Means of knowledge with the duty of using them are, in equity, equivalent to knowledge itself. Where there is a duty of finding out and knowing, negligent ignorance has the same effect in law as actual knowledge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * shall be extinguished only by the lapse of time which is established for prescription.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“This Court said, in the case of Maxwell v. W.B. Thompson & Co., 175 La. 252 , 143 So. 230, 233 , that `notice, in its accepted legal sense, means such information on the part of the person charged with notice as would put a prudent person on inquiry to ascertain the true or actual facts,' and in the case of National Park Bank v. Concordia Land & Timber Company, 159 La. 86 , 105 So. 234, 239 [La.1925], that `notice of facts which ought to excite inquiry, and which, if pursued, would lead to knowledge of other facts operates as notice thereof. ' (Italics ours.)”
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.