Blanchard v. Gauthier’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
March 1967
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Viator · State ex rel. Vullo v. Plaquemines Parish Police Jury · State v. Guimbellot · 48 So. 2d 823 - Hughes v. Parish Council · Pennix v. Webster Parish Police Jury
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.
““Because the theory of local option laws is that the people of a political or governmental unit shall have the right to determine their status, and the correlative right to change it, according to the provisions of those laws, a status once adopted is usually considered to attach to the territory which was originally bound by the vote, and to remain operative, unless lawfully changed, notwithstanding changes for other purposes in the designation, boundaries, or organization of the unit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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