Donnell v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 710 So. 2d 799 - Eicher v. LA. STATE POLICE, RIVERBOAT GAMING ENFOR. DIV. (1998), Logan v. Louisiana Dock Co., Inc. (1989)
24 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 Stieffel v. Valentine Sugars, Inc. · Robichaux v. Realty Operators, Inc. · Chronos Land Co. v. Crichton · Madison Lumber Co. v. Helm · Standard Oil Co. v. Barlow
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Article 3412 of the Civil Code defines occupancy as a mode of acquiring property ‘by which a thing which belongs to nobody, becomes the property of the person who took possession of it, with the intention of acquiring a right of ownership upon it.’ And Article 3413 declares that occupancy can only be a lawful mode of acquiring property so long as the thing in occupancy has no owner and ‘when it is retained by the acquirer with the intention of keeping it as his own property.’ ””
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.