416 So. 2d 311 - Weaver v. Hailey’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2019
17 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 Blevins v. Manufacturers Record Publishing Co. · 294 So. 2d 797 - Pure Oil Company v. Skinner · Harrill v. Pitts · 193 So. 2d 559 - Dendy v. City of Pascagoula · 15 La. Ann. 76 - Zeringue v. Williams
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To obtain a judgment recognizing his ownership of immovable property or real right therein, the plaintiff in a petitory action shall: (1) Prove that he has acquired ownership from a previous owner or by acquisitive prescription, if the court finds that the defendant is in possession thereof; or (2) Prove a better title thereto than the defendant, if the court finds that the latter is not in possession thereof. When the titles of the parties are traced to a common author, he is presumed to be the previous owner.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Art. 531. Proof of ownership of immovable “One who claims the ownership of an immovable against another in possession must prove that he has acquired ownership from a previous owner or by acquisitive prescription. If neither party is in possession, he need only prove a better title.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"When the titles of the parties are traced to a common author, he is presumed to be the previous owner.””
4 later decisions 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.