552 So. 2d 1052 - Brown v. Rougon’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 2016
1 federal appellate · 8 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on 397 So. 2d 490 - Vermilion Corp. v. Vaughn · Dixie Campers, Inc. v. Vesely Co. · 405 So. 2d 314 - Terrebonne Parish Police Jury v. Matherne · Discon v. Saray, Inc. · Courtney v. Winn Dixie Louisiana, Inc.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The use of public funds does not convey greater rights than those contracted for by the parties. To hold otherwise would allow the taking of private ownership rights without the consent of the owner and without just compensation in violation of our State and United States constitutions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“servitudes are restraints on the free disposal and use of property, and are not, on that account, entitled to be viewed with favor by law.”
1 later decision 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.