Gouaux v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
August 1977
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Fisk v. Police Jury of Jefferson Left Bank State of Louisiana Fisk · State ex rel. Romain v. Board of Supervisors of Election · Hollander v. Bailey
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.
“"As this mandate, in article 296 of the Constitution of 1898, and of 1913, and in section 11 of article 6 of the Constitution of 1921, directing the Legislature to create parish and municipal boards of health, did not fix the term of office, the Legislature had authority to fix it. And the Legislature had authorityand has the authority yet, if it was not surrendered by the restriction in the call for the constitutional convention of 1921to abolish, during the term of an incumbent, any office that the Legislature had authority to create and to fix the term of."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davenport v. Hardy
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.