Lewis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2010
11 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 California Co. v. Price · Realty Operators, Inc. v. State Mineral Board · State Ex Rel. Hyams' Heirs v. Grace · State Ex Rel. Hyams' Heirs v. Grace · State v. New Orleans Land 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It applies to all sales of land, whereby the state divests itself of title, with one exception: the redemption of property adjudicated to the state for taxes. Had it been intended to except sales under Act 101 of1888, the exception also would have been formally expressed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Article IV, Section 2 of the Louisiana Constitution of 1921, makes all mineral rights owned by the state, inclusive of those herein involved, inalienable and thus, imprescriptible,”
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.