Roussel v. Dornier’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 1955
9 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 State v. Judge of Second Judicial District Court · State ex rel. Woodruff v. Dortch · State ex rel. Trosclair v. Parish Democratic Committee · State ex rel. Burke v. Foster · Collin v. Knoblock
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The contesting of votes is not a judicial function, only so far as made such by special statutes. Indeed, some may have gone so far as to question whether it is not wholly a matter of administration which cannot with propriety be referred to the judicial tribunals at all. At any rate it is clear that such tribunals cannot usurp any greater control over this business than is specially imposed upon them by law. In the absence of a statutory "authorization, they are without jurisdiction of the matter, ratione materise.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reid v. Brunot
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.