Emerson v. Cotton’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Marks (1954), Quality Environmental Processes, Inc. v. I.P. Petroleum Co. (2014)
23 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 · Harrill v. Pitts · Lawler v. Bradford · Levy v. Ward · Rock Island, A. & L. R. Co. v. Guillory
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Description of property in deeds must be liberally construed to sustain rather than defeat a conveyance.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“This Court has held in a number of cases that where a plantation or property known by a specific name was conveyed, the name itself must be considered in identifying the property. In fact, some of the decisions go so far as to state that the name itself is almost a sufficient description. Levy v. Ward, 33 La.Ann. 1033 ; Dickson v. Dickson, 36 La.Ann. 870 ; Bryan v. Wisner, 44 La.Ann. 832 , 11 So. 290 ; Robinson v. Atkins, 105 La. 790 , 30 So. 231 ; Suthon v. Laws, 127 La. 531 , 53 So. 852 .”
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.