Irland v. Barron’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2015
12 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 City of Crowley v. Prejean · 139 So. 2d 67 - Ludlam v. International Paper Company · 198 So. 2d 463 - Foster v. McLain · Parish of Jefferson v. Bertucci Bros. Const. 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"All actions, civil or criminal, created by statute, ordinance or otherwise, which may be brought by parishes, ... to require enforcement of and compliance with any zoning restriction, building restriction, or subdivision regulation, imposed by any parish, ... and based upon the violation by any person, ... of such restriction or regulation, must be brought within two years from the first act constituting the commission of the violation; ... provided further that with reference to violations of use regulations all such actions, civil or criminal, must be brought within two years from the date the parish, ... first had knowledge of such violation, ..." LSA-R.S. 9:5625. (Emphasis ours).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]ll actions ... which may be brought by parishes, municipalities or their instrumentalities... to require enforcement of and compliance with any zoning restriction ... imposed by any parish, municipality or their instrumentalities....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Insofar as use violations are concerned, the general requirement of the statute that actions to enforce must be brought within two years of their commencement, is modified by the proviso to require that the prescriptive period only begins to run after knowledge of the violation has been acquired by the governmental body having authority over the violation. It is plain by the wording of the statute that a distinction has been made between violations concerning zoning restrictions, building restrictions or subdivision regulations and use regulations. 3”
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.