Ventress v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““After the recordation of the patent or deed in the conveyance records of the parish where such property is situated, the purchaser, his heirs or assigns, may institute suit by petition and citation as in ordinary actions against the former owner of the property who was the record owner of the property at the time of * * * the adjudication of the property to the state or any political subdivision thereof for nonpayment of taxes, in which petition must appear a description of the property, mention of the adjudication to the state or a political subdivision thereof, reference to the book and page of the conveyance records in which the deed of said adjudication has been recorded and the date of recordation, mention of the sale by the state or its political subdivision of said adjudicated property and reference to the book and page of the conveyance records in which the patent or deed of sale by the state or its political subdivision has been recorded and the date of recordation, notice that petitioner is owner of said property by virtue of said patent or deed of sale by the state or its political subdivision or by virtue of an acquisition emanating from the purchaser under said patent or deed of sale by the state or its political subdivision, and praying that the title to the said property be confirmed and quieted.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Nero v. Bergin