Wolfe v. Hurley’s Empirical Analysis
46 F.2d 515 · 1930
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1989 · most notably General Box Company v. United States (1956), Delaune v. Board of Commissioners (1956)
5 federal appellate · 19 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
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 702A · 33 U.S.C. § 702E
Relies on Eldridge v. Trezevant · Green v. Board of Com'rs · Boyce Cottonseed Oil Mfg. Co. v. Board of Com'rs · Holmes v. . Carley · Commonwealth v. Evans
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Servitudes imposed for the public or common utility, relate to the space which is to be left for the public use by the adjacent proprietors on the shores of navigable rivers, and for the making and repairing of levees, roads and other public or common works. “All that relates to this kind of servitude is determined by laws or particular regulations.” (Emphasis supplied.) LSA-C.C. Art. 665.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Since ancient times a servitude has existed in favor of the public on lands in Louisiana adjacent to navigable rivers and streams for the purpose of constructing and repairing levees to confine the waters of such rivers or streams. The State through its levee boards may appropriate for levee purposes riparian lands burdened with this servitude, without prior judicial proceedings and without compensating the owners for the actual value thereof; and this appropriation does not offend due process or other constitutional guarantees for the reason that riparian ownership is subject to the superior public servitude which came into existence at the time the property was separated from the public domain. The servitude affects not only land actually bordering on the navigable stream but also land within the reasonable necessities of the situation as produced by the forces of nature unaided by artificial causes."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Lands and improvements thereon hereafter actually used or destroyed for levees or levee drainage purposes ... shall be paid for at a price not to exceed the assessed value of the preceding year....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.