Fontenot v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 1992
23 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 Sugar v. City of Monroe · State ex rel. Orr v. City of New Orleans · 39 La. Ann. 107 - Handy v. City of New Orleans · Conery v. New Orleans Waterworks Co.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That any act passed by the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana at its ■session in 1910 creating a new parish or parishes and assigning a representative to each is hereby ratified and confirmed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Peck v. Tugwell“And they saw fit to propose and adopt an amendment which practically incorporates in the Constitution the Act No. 15 of 1910.”
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.