Lombard v. State of Louisiana’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
98 federal appellate · 24 district · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 328 later decisions (51 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2019 · most notably Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. (1970), Swain v. State of Alabama (1965)
98 federal appellate · 24 district · 78 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Douglas v. People of State of California · Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority · Shelley v. Kraemer · Cooper v. Aaron
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 328 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By enforcing this criminal mischief statute, invoked in the manner now before us, the Louisiana courts are denying some people access to the mainstream of our highly interdependent life solely because of their race.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen the police enter private precincts they must, with rare exceptions, come armed with a warrant issued by a magistrate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. O'Rourke v. Hayes“access by the public is the very reason for its existence.”
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.