310 So. 2d 86 - LaCaze v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 1998
6 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 Hall v. Godchaux · Vidrine v. Eldred · Dowling v. Orleans Parish Democratic Committee · Lewis v. Democratic Executive Committee · Landry v. Ozenne
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"This Court can and should annul [the election] when the irregularity or illegality permeates the entire election, or when there is an irregularity which makes it impossible to determine which candidate the people lawfully elected." (Emphasis added). LaCaze v. Johnson, 310 So.2d 86 (La.1974). See also, Garrison v. Connick, 291 So.2d 778 (La.1974).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“if the court finds the proven frauds and irregularities are of such a serious nature as to deprive the voters of the free expression of their will, it will decree the nullity of the entire election- even though the contestant might not be able to prove that he would have been [elected] but for such fraud and irregularities.”
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.