Slater v. Blaize’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * it is the settled jurisprudence of this state that the person who is in possession of and claiming title to an office may resort to injunctive proceedings to maintain his possession thereof pending an orderly determination of the title thereto. Guillotte v. Poincy, 41 La.Ann. 333 , 6 So. 507 , 5 L.R.A. 403 ; Goldman v. Gillespie, 43 La.Ann. 83 , 8 So. 880 ; State [ex rel. Bourg] v. Turner, 152 La. 828, 829 , 94 So. 411 ; and Guillory v. Jones, 197 La. 165 , 1 So.2d 65 . An exhaustive discussion of the jurisprudence on this subject will be found in the Guillory case.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fulton v. Millet

2. “Under the express provision of our law, the proper procedure in cases where the person claiming title to an office is not in actual possession thereof is by quo warranto or intrusion-into-office proceedings (Article 867, etc. of the Code of Practice and Section 2593, etc., of the Revised Statutes, as amended by Act No. 102 of 1928) * * *.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Small v. Levy