State v. Rodriguez’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably 439 So. 2d 377 - State v. Union Tank Car Co. (1983), 654 So. 2d 1311 - City of Baton Rouge v. Ross (1995)
46 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 811 (§ 201 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 551 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)
Relies on American Power & Light Co. v. Securities & Exchange Commission · Currin v. Wallace · United States v. Shreveport Grain & Elevator Co. · State v. Truby · United States v. Gordon
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“So long as the regulation or action of the official or board authorized by statute does not in effect determine what the law shall be, or involve the exercise of primary and independent discretion, but only determines within prescribed limits some fact upon which the law by its own terms operates, such regulation is administrative and not legislative in its nature.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Except as otherwise provided by this constitution, no one of these branches, nor any person holding office in one of them, shall exercise power belonging to either of the others.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is well settled in Louisiana jurisprudence that the determination and definition of acts which are punishable as crimes are purely legislative functions.”
3 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.