907 So. 2d 859 - Gatson v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Rockholt v. Keaty · 544 So. 2d 351 - Coliseum Square Ass'n v. City of New Orleans · Anderson v. Police Jury of Parish of East Feliciana · Caz-Perk Realty, Inc. v. Police Jury · Porter v. Huckabay
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even after a police jury has in fact abandoned maintenance of a tacitly-dedicated road and refuses to recognize the road as public, the right of owners along the road to use the road as a servitude may be upheld.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In such cases, the tacitly-dedicated roads provide rights tantamount to actual predial servitudes protecting the dominant estate owners at the end of these roads, whose property might otherwise be enclosed.”
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.