State v. Jordan’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2007 · most notably 586 So. 2d 1354 - Louisiana Associated Gen. Contr. v. Calcasieu (1991), Marion Mortgate Co. v. Grennan (1932)
25 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. Bonner · State v. Emerson · State v. Bernard · State v. Richards
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Parishes and municipal corporations of this state are vested with no powers, and possess no authority, except such as are conferred upon, or delegated to, them by the Constitution and statutes. * * * It is conceded that, if the parishes and municipalities of this state have such delegated authority, it must be found in Act 17 of the First Extra Session of 1935, which act is commonly referred to as the ‘Local Option Law’ of this state.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Parishes and municipal corporations of this state are vested with no powers, and possess no authority, except such as are conferred upon, or delegated to, them by the Constitution and statutes.”
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.