33 La. Ann. 981 - State v. Baum’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““While the Legislature fails to prohibit, in the name of the state, the sale, etc., of liquors or merchandise on Sundays, it grants full power so to do to police juries in their parishes, and proffers the power of the state to champion the ordinances to that end which may be adopted by any police jury. In other words, the Legislature ingrafts a penal statute with a suspensive condition, to wit, the passage of certain ordinances by the various police juries of the state; and thus, under the practical operation, the state in its name, at the bidding of the police jury of East Baton Rouge, prosecutes a resident of that parish for the performance of an act which is not forbidden in the parish of St. James, wherein the identical resident of East Baton Rouge can do the same act with perfect freedom and with absolute immunity from any criminal prosecution in the premises.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Westmoreland

2. ““to authorize police juries to make such regulations as they may deem proper to prohibit or regulate the sale, barter or exchange of intoxicating liquors or merchandise on Sundays.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Westmoreland