Chiasson v. Duplechain’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1989
6 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 Reardon v. Dickinson · Succession of Todd · Gill v. City of Lake Charles · Douglas v. Haro · De Hart v. Continental Land & Fur Co.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While plaintiff and defendants proceed upon the theory that whoever owns the property adjacent to the railroad right of way upon its abandonment became the owner of that particular piece of abandoned property, it is our opinion that whoever owned the land under the railroad right of way at the time of its abandonment was the owner, ' regardless of any 'adjacent owner. It will be noted without dispute that Chiasson, Duplechain and Willingham acquired the entire 87 acres across which this disputed strip of land ran. Unless they divested themselves of title thereto they are still the owners in indivisión. The record shows that when they partitioned this property they did not partition any part' of or include in the partition any part of the railroad right of way in dispute. The description partitioned the 87 acres up to the railroad right of way as one boundary and the black top Highway No. 214-D as another boundary. In ' other words, the plaintiff acquired a strip up to the railroad right of way on the south while Duplechain acquired a strip up to the highway on the north or east, and Willingham acquired a strip south of Chiasson. Therefore, as the railroad never did , acquire a title to the land but only a servitude or right to construct a railroad on the strip and across the land as described, which was recognized by the railroad in its act of abandonment, and in the same act the railroad quitclaims and abandons to the grantor or her heirs or assigns, who, in this case, were”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hanks v. Stutes“has no right of ownership in the part, but only the right of using it”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“being bounded on the north and east by M. L. & T. R.R.,”
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.