Bertrand v. Sandoz’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2018
10 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 Abbott v. Parker · Arata v. Louisiana Stadium and Exposition District · Liter v. City of Baton Rouge · Board of County Commissioners v. Warram · Meder v. City of Oklahoma City
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“issue revenue bonds without an election by a majority of the taxpayers of the district.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The Anglo-Saxon legal system contemplates advocates on each side of the case who seek to advance the best interest of their clients. Thus courts can have some confidence that they have explored the applicable jurisprudence and theories on each side." (Dixon, Justice, dissenting, Bertrand v. Sandoz, 260 La. 239, 268 , 255 So.2d 754, 764 [1971]).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“shall constitute a public corporation and political subdivision of the state and shall have all the powers and privileges granted by the state constitution and state statutes to such subdivisions, including the authority to incur debt, to issue bonds and to levy taxes.”
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.