Dautreuil v. Degeyter’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2019
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 398 So. 2d 1037 - Ogden v. Bankston · Bernos v. Canepa · 146 So. 2d 666 - Graham v. Congregation of St. Rita Roman Catholic Church
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.
“keeping in mind that servitudes are limitations on ownership and, as such, are not favored in law; thus, any doubt as to the existence, extent or manner of exercise of a predial servitude is to be resolved in favor of the servient estate, [La.Civ.Code] art. 730.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clement v. Menard“The very essence of a predial servitude is that the dominant estate has a right to do something which may limit the use of the servient estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]hen a servitude of passage is created by contract, that contract regulates the extent of the servitude”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clement v. Menard
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.