334 So. 2d 395 - Johnson v. Welsh’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 646 So. 2d 859 - Vallo v. Gayle Oil Co., Inc. (1994), 359 So. 2d 1256 - Everett v. Goldman (1978)
1 federal appellate · 83 state decisions
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Relationships
Relies on Alexander v. Louisiana · Summerell v. Phillips · City of Shreveport v. Pedro · Smith v. Smith · Tafaro's Investment Co. v. Division of Housing Improvement
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is well settled that all laws are presumed to be constitutional until the contrary is made to appear, and that as a general rule a litigant cannot raise the unconstitutionality of a statute unless its unconstitutionality is specially pleaded and the grounds particularized. Summerell v. Phillips, 258 La. 587 , 247 So.2d 542 (1971) and cases cited therein; City of Shreveport v. Pedro, 170 La. 351 , 127 So. 865 (1930). As a corollary of this rule, a litigant who fails to plead the unconstitutionality of a statute in the trial court cannot raise the constitutional issue in the appellate court. E. g., Summerell v. Phillips, supra ; Maher v. City of New Orleans, 256 La. 131 , 235 So.2d 402 (1970); State ex rel. McAvoy v. Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners, 238 La. 502 , 115 So.2d 833 (1959); Southern Enterprises v. Foster, 203 La. 133 , 13 So.2d 491 (1943)."”
4 later decisions 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.