342 So. 2d 191 - Swift v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
1 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 567 So. 2d 75 - Moore v. Roemer (1990), Bd. of Com'rs of Orleans Levee Dist. v. Dept. of Natural Resources (1986)
1 district · 29 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 Ward v. Leche · Stovall v. City of Monroe · State v. Toon · State v. Cusimano · 324 So. 2d 587 - Groves v. Board of Trustees of Teach. Retire. Sys.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unlike Congress, our State Legislature has all powers of legislation not specifically denied it by the Louisiana Constitution”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Section 23. (A) Retirement System. Within two years after the effective date of this constitution, the legislature shall provide for a retirement system for judges which shall apply to a judge taking office after the effective date of the law enacting the system and in which a judge in office at that time may elect to become a member, with credit for all prior years of judicial service and without contribution therefor. The retirement benefits and judicial service rights of a judge in office or retired on the effective date of this constitution shall not be diminished, nor shall the benefits to which a surviving spouse is entitled be reduced. "(B) Mandatory Retirement. Except as otherwise provided in this Section, a judge shall not remain in office beyond his seventieth birthday."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Small v. Levy“We commence our interpretation of subject statute by noting that legislation providing pension systems must be liberally construed in favor of the intended beneficiaries. Maillet v. Board of Trustees, Teachers’ Retirement System, 248 La. 964 , 183 So.2d 321 ; Miller v. City of Shreveport, La.App., 90 So.2d 565 . Accordingly, any ambiguity in such a statute must be resolved in favor of the persons intended to be benefited thereby. (Emphasis supplied.)”
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.