Hurst v. Ricard’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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

1. ““It is a well settled principle of law that when a man sells so many arpents of land on a water course, with the ordinary depth of forty, he is understood to convey the superficial quantity which results from multiplying the depth by the front, or, in other words, that the side lines must be run at right angles from the front, unless the lines are stated to close, or open, or other expressions used, by which the legal intendment of the terms so much front and depth is controuled. “It is equally clear and well settled that if the owner of a tract of land sells it out by separate portions at different times, and there is not enough for all the purchasers, that he who has first acquired gets the whole quantity he has bought, and the second, or other buyer, only takes what remains, after satisfying the prior sales. Louisiana code, 843.” 6 Mart. (N.S.) 697 at 700 .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hurst v. Ricard · Hurst v. Ricard

2. ““A certain tract of land situated in the Parish of Pointe Coupee having one acre front on False River by a depth of Forty arpents with lines closing towards the rear according to title, including the Bat-ture in front of said tract ... bounded by land of Leonce Decuir and of Rosalie Patín.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hurst v. Ricard · Hurst v. Ricard

3. ““A certain tract of land situated on the lower Chenal of False River in the parish of Pointe Coupee, fronting one arpent and a quarter of an arpent front on the lower Chenal of False River by a depth of fifty arpents more or less, forty of which back of the main road, ...””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hurst v. Ricard