Thibodeaux v. Landry’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 2007
5 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 Sharpe v. Levert · 322 So. 2d 330 - Moorhead v. State, Department of Highways · Landry v. McCall · 209 So. 2d 568 - Freestate Industrial Development Co. v. T. & H., INC. · Brown v. Blankenship
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a servitude due by the estate situated below to receive the waters which run naturally from the estate situated above, provided the industry of man has not been used to create that servitude. The proprietor below is not at liberty to raise any dam, or to make any other work, to prevent this running of the water. The proprietor above can do nothing whereby the natural servitude due by the estate below may be rendered more burdensome.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““. . . defendants have not proved at this juncture that they have more than a natural servitude of drain; therefore they are not entitled to install culverts on plaintiff’s property or to enlarge the ditch.” Id. at 525.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walters v. Thrasher““He to whom a servitude is due, has a right to make all the works necessary to use and preserve the same.””
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.