Bruce v. Cheramie’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 1981
14 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 Snelling v. Adair · Arnold v. Sun Oil Co. · Leader Realty Co. v. Taylor · Harrill v. Pitts · Tircuit v. Burton-Swartz Cypress 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““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.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boyet v. Perryman
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.