354 So. 2d 1297 - State v. Stripling’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 2006 · most notably 391 So. 2d 421 - State v. Gibson (1980), 477 So. 2d 1094 - Sibley v. Bd. of Sup'rs of Louisiana State University (1985)
25 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Witherspoon v. Illinois · United States v. Harris
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are as valid and effectual[] when they concern the public or the rights of third parties, as though he were an officer de jure and cannot be collaterally attacked.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“acts of a de facto officer are valid as to third persons and the public until the officer's title to office is adjudged insufficient.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[c]ourts are directed by a long line of decisions, both federal and state, and by a general propositions applicable to constitutional government, not to pass upon the constitutionality of an act of the legislature if the case can properly be decided on another ground.”
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.