Dean v. Hercules Incorporated

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• interpreting C.C. art. 667 to encompass personal injuries as well as property damage arising from a neighboring landowner's use of his land
• in a suit involving damage to property caused by chemical emissions, prescription begins to run “from the date the damage becomes apparent”
• “[T]he plaintiff must exercise reasonable diligence in ascertaining the identity of the party injuring him.”
• where owner of tract of land brought claim for damages based on La. C. C. art. 667 against neighboring chemical plant for chemical emissions that killed or adversely affected trees on his land, the one- year prescriptive period for delictual actions was applicable to the E claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

68 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Corsey v. State, Through Dept. of Corrections
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1979-10-08· cited 282×
• Marin v. Exxon Mobil Corp.
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2010-10-19· cited 196×
• South Central Bell Telephone Co. v. Texaco, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1982-06-21· cited 148×
• Crump v. Sabine River Authority
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1999-06-29· cited 131×
• Bunge Corp. v. Gatx Corp.
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1990-03-12· cited 74×
• Terrebonne Parish School Board v. Columbia Gulf Transmission Co.
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-05-10· cited 73×
• Cordova v. Hartford Acc. & Indem. Co.
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1980-06-23· cited 60×
• Mouton v. State
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1988-04-19· cited 59×
• Butler v. Baber
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1988-05-23· cited 55×
• Perkins v. F.I.E. Corp.
  Fifth Circuit· 1985-06-17· cited 53×
• Mary Diane Higgenbotham v. Ochsner Foundation Hospital
  Fifth Circuit· 1979-11-27· cited 40×
• LEJEUNE BROS. v. Goodrich Petroleum Co.
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 2007-11-28· cited 40×
• Henson v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co.
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1978-10-09· cited 39×
• Cooper v. La. Dept. of Public Works
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 2004-03-03· cited 36×
• Wilson v. Hartzman
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1979-10-19· cited 34×
• Richard v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 2009-02-11· cited 33×
• Ernest E. Adams v. Johns-Manville Sales Corporation
  Fifth Circuit· 1986-02-26· cited 28×
• Turner v. Murphy Oil USA, Inc.
  E.D. Louisiana· 2006-01-30· cited 28×
• Avondale Shipyards, Inc. v. Vessel Thomas E. Cuffe
  E.D. Louisiana· 1977-06-15· cited 25×
• Langendorf v. Administrators of Tulane Ed. Fund
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1978-10-26· cited 25×

Cites

24 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Langlois v. Allied Chemical Corporation
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1971-06-07· cited 282×
• Chaney v. Travelers Insurance Company
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1971-06-23· cited 73×
• R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company v. Elbert Berry Hudson
  Fifth Circuit· 1963-03-14· cited 72×
• Penn v. Inferno Manufacturing Corporation
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1967-04-17· cited 72×
• Martin v. Mud Supply Company
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1960-03-21· cited 57×
• Tuminello v. Mawby
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1952-02-18· cited 53×
• Bewley Furniture Co., Inc. v. Maryland Casualty Co.
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1973-10-29· cited 45×
• Liles v. Barnhart
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1922-06-05· cited 45×
• Orleans Parish School Board v. Pittman Construction Co.
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1972-03-27· cited 44×
• Gulf Insurance Co. v. Employers Liability Assur. Corp.
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1964-12-07· cited 31×
• Anslem v. Travelers Ins. Co.
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1966-12-01· cited 30×
• Patin v. Stockstill
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1975-07-08· cited 26×
• Dagenhart v. Robertson Truck Lines, Inc.
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1970-02-02· cited 21×
• Bewley Furniture Co., Inc. v. Maryland Casualty Co.
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1973-03-08· cited 16×
• Springer v. Aetna Casualty and Surety Company
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1964-11-02· cited 11×
• Dalton v. Plumbers & Steamfitters Local Union No. 60
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1960-06-29· cited 11×
• Brown v. Clingman
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1895-07-01· cited 8×
• Dean v. Hercules, Inc.
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1975-09-19· cited 6×
• Breaux v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Company
  E.D. Louisiana· 1967-09-29· cited 6×
• Kuchenig v. California Company
  E.D. Louisiana· 1964-09-13· cited 6×