225 So. 2d 656 - Arnaud v. Barber’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1999
8 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 Meyer v. Comegys · Dufrene v. Bernstein · Sagrera v. Mouton · 159 So. 2d 38 - Miley v. Walker
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The order of importance of, or the preference which should be given to, the various calls which may be included in a description are: (1) Natural monuments; (2) artificial monuments; (3) distances; (4) courses; and (5) quantity. The controlling consideration in any case, however, is the intention of the party or parties. Sagrera v. Mouton, 180 So.2d 775 (La.App. 3d Cir. 1965); Dufrene v. Bernstein, 190 La. 66 , 181 So. 859 (1938). "A call in a description which specifies the acreage or quantity of the land therein being described is the weakest of all calls, and it must yield to all other calls which give monuments, distances or courses. When the description does not contain a call of monuments, distances or courses, however, or where all of these preferred calls fail for some reason, then the call which specifies only acreage or quantity must be given effect and it must control. LSA-C.C. art. 849; Meyer v. Comegys, 147 La. 851 , 86 So. 307 (1920); Sagrera v. Mouton, supra."”
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.