Flanagan v. Elder’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1982
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
Relies on Cragin v. Powell · Werk v. Leland University · Gray v. Coco · Perry v. Board of Com'rs · Minor v. Daspit
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is an apparent conflict between the description construed in connection with the conveyance record and that shown by the lines on the map of survey by Webb in 1917, and the single question involved, is which should control. That question, in our opinion, has passed the stage of uncertainty and is now settled by the decisions in Canal Bank vs. Copeland, 6 La. [543] 548; Gray vs. Coco, 113 La. 33 , 36 So. 878 ; Perry vs. Board of Commissioners, 132 La. [415] 428, 61 South. 511 ; Werk vs. Leland University, 155 L[a.] 991 [971] 99 South. 716 . The diagram or map referred to controls the description.” (Emphasis supplied.) See, also, Flanagan v. Elder, La.App.2d Cir., 1956, 90 So.2d 540 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““If the parties claim under simple acts of sale or other acts which can transfer property, without being supported by any anterior concessions, and if they, or the persons from whom they acquired their estates, have acquired them from one common proprietor, the preference shall be given to him whose title is of the most ancient date, unless an adverse possession, for a time sufficient to establish prescription, has produced a difference in the situation of the parties,””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Laborde v. Mayeux“"It is a well-settled principle that when lands are granted according to an official plat of the survey of such lands, the plat itself, with all of its notes, lines, descriptions and landmarks, becomes as much a part of the grant or deed by which they are conveyed, and controls so far as limits are concerned, as if such descriptive features were written out upon the face of the deed or the grant itself."”
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.