Marks v. Collier’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2005 · most notably 337 So. 2d 432 - Norton v. Addie (1976), Daigle v. Pan American Production Co. (1958)
30 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 Rhodes v. Collier · Ellis v. Prevost · International Paper Co. v. Louisiana Central Lumber Co. · Lenard v. Shell Oil Co. · Wetherbee v. Railroad Lands Co.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The possession of a portion of the land extends to the limits or boundaries set out in the title deed and this actual possession is preserved and maintained as though the property had always been physically possessed by the plaintiff. Articles 3437, 3442 and 3443, Revised Civil Code; Ellis v. Prevost, 19 La. 251 ; Duffourc v. Constantin, 189 La. 826 , 181 So. 183 ; Lee v. Harris, 209 La. 730 , 25 So.2d 448 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barrois v. Zeringue
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.