Lee v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 1972
15 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 Pittman v. Bourg · Ellis v. Prevost · 47 La. Ann. 401 - Handlin v. H. Weston Lumber Co. · Taylor v. Telle · 2 La. Ann. 205 - Davis v. Dale
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * ever since the decision of this court in the case of Ellis v. Prevost, 13 La. 230 , decided in 1839, clarifying all of the contradictory provisions of our codes treating of possession, the character of possession necessary to maintain the possessory action has been considered settled and the jurisprudence of this state has been that once vested with possession, the intention to continue therein is presumed to persist, whether or not the possessor actually occupies and detains the thing, until he is disturbed in fact or in law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“injunction must be granted, and directed against the defendant himself * * *. 5. When the defendant disturbs the plaintiff in the actual and real possession which such plaintiff has had for more than one year * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“either the ownership, the possession or the enjoyment”
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.