Juneau v. Laborde’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 1983 · most notably Juneau v. Laborde (1955), Martin v. Schwing Lumber & Shingle Co. (1955)
38 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 National Park Bank v. Concordia Land & Timber Co. · Long v. Chailan · Tyson v. Spearman · Harrill v. Pitts · Blunson v. Knighton
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.
“"However, it being true that defendant was informed (contrary to his testimony) by Dewey Dauzat of the defectiveness of the title, and further in view of his close acquaintanceship and friendship with the Juneau family and of the fact that he knew positively of Mrs. Juneau's death in 1928, it cannot be held that he had just reason to believe that he was acquiring a title free of defects. With the information that he possessed, which was certainly sufficient to excite inquiry, a duty devolved upon him to investigate the title before purchasing. If he had made the investigation, actual knowledge of the outstanding interest would have been acquired. Having failed in that duty, he is in law chargeable with the knowledge. National Park Bank v. Concordia Land & Timber Co. 159 La. 86 , 105 So. 234 ; Tyson v. Spearman, 190 La. 871 , 183 So. 201 ; Harrill v. Pitts, 194 La. 123 , 193 So. 562 ; Blunson v. Knighton, La.App., 140 So. 302 ; Dinwiddie v. Cox, La.App., 9 So.2d 68 . "Chargeable with such knowledge, defendant was not a possessor in good faith; and he took the deed at his own risk, subject to the claim of plaintiffs. Victoria Lumber Co., Ltd. v. Dawson, 159 La. 848 , 106 So. 327 ."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"1. Good faith on the part of the possessor. 2. A title which shall be legal, and sufficient to transfer the property. 3. Possession during the time required by law, which possession must be accompanied by the incidents hereafter required. 4. And finally an object which may be acquired by prescription."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Civil Code Article 3481 provides: `Good faith is always presumed in matters of prescription; and he who alleges bad faith in the possessor, must prove it.'”
2 later decisions 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.