Moreau v. Tonry’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2015
17 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 Dowling v. Orleans Parish Democratic Committee · Lewis v. Democratic Executive Committee · Landry v. Ozenne · 291 So. 2d 778 - Garrison v. Connick · 310 So. 2d 86 - LaCaze v. Johnson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"If the candidate cannot prove he would have been elected `but for irregularities or fraud', our jurisprudence refers to an alternative: if the court finds the proven frauds and irregularities are of such a serious nature that the voters have been deprived of the free expression of their will, the election will be nullified. "... For this Court to render such a drastic order, there must be a clear showing that a course of fraudulent conduct was employed which effectually prevented the electors from expressing their will ". Lewis v. Democratic Executive Committee, 232 La. 732 , 95 So.2d 292 (1957)." (emphasis added)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The statutory rule in Louisiana is that an election may be upset only if the one contesting the election can show that `but for irregularities or fraud he would have been nominated' . . ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“election frauds and irregularities are difficult to prove because of their clandestine nature and the limited time available to assemble evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.