Osborne v. Hurst’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2026
22 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 618 So. 2d 874 - Roman Catholic Church v. Louisiana Gas Service Co. · Lewis v. Lewis · Andersen v. Edwards · Crawford v. Rogers · Newton v. Magill
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[DJamages are measured only by the difference between the value of the land before and after the harm if the 'cost of replacing the land in its original condition is disproportionaté to the diminution in the value of the land caused by the trespass, unless there is a reason personal to the owner for restor-rn ing the original condition'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[the true criterion [for determining whether a person qualifies as an expert witness] is whether the jury can receive appreciable help from this particular person on this particular subject”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) If one is entitled to a judgment for harm to land resulting from a past invasion and not amounting to a total destruction of value, the damages include compensation for (a) the difference between the value of the land before the harm and the value after the harm, or at his election in an appropriate case, the cost of restoration that has been or may be reasonably incurred....”
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.