Conrad v. Roussell’s Empirical Analysis

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10 state decisions

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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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The question which has given us much concern is whether the surveyor, when he found that the two titles conflicted to the extent that one would have practically eliminated the other, should have referred the matter back to the court for instructions or could himself decide which of the two titles was superior and establish the line in accordance with his decision on this question of superiority of title. We think that in such a situation where ‘the parties interested, or any of them, shall make opposition’ to the method of conducting .the survey, Article 837 of the Code requires that the surveyor must ‘desist, and refer the parties to the court, to have a decision of their respective rights * * * >»”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Simmons v. Dixon

2. ““Under codal article 837, the parties interested, or any of them, are given an opportunity, before the work is finished, to make opposition, in which case the surveyor must desist and refer the parties to the court to have an adjudication of their respective rights. By his completion of the work before the time designated in the notice, Eustis denied the parties their substantial right of witnessing the work as it progressed, and deprived them of their right to register objections, if they had seen fit to make any, and the notice to them was ineffectual and was equivalent to no notice at all.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 242 So. 2d 58 - Edmonston v. Badeaux

3. ““The object of an action in boundary is to separate physically one estate from another and mark the limits of each by visible bounds. The limits may be fixed judicially or extra judicially, but in either case ‘it must be done by a sworn surveyor of this State, who shall be bound to make a procés verbal of his work in the presence of two witnesses, called for the purpose, who shall sign the procés verbal with him, or mention shall be made therein of the causes which prevented them from signing.’ R.C.C. art. 833.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lirette v. Duplantis