Cipriano v. City of Houma’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
283 federal appellate · 109 district · 520 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,417 later decisions (94 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2020 · most notably Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson (1971), Dunn v. Blumstein (1972)
283 federal appellate · 109 district · 520 state decisions — followed in 42 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 Reynolds v. Sims · Linkletter v. Walker · Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections Butts · Chicot County Drainage District v. Baxter State Bank · Kramer v. Union Free School District No. 15
Cited together with Kramer v. Union Free School District No. 15 · Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson · City of Phoenix v. Kolodziejski · Reynolds v. Sims · Linkletter v. Walker
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 1,417 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(w)here a decision of this Court could produce substantial inequitable results if applied retroactively, there is ample basis in our cases for avoiding the 'injustice or hardship' by a holding of nonretroactivity.”
64 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e will apply our decision in this case prospectively. That is, we will apply it only where, under state law, the time for challenging the election result has not expired, or in cases brought within the time specified by state law for challenging the election and which are not yet final. Thus, the decision will not apply where the authorization to issue the securities is legally complete on the date of this decision”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When the bankruptcy court in the case at bar adjudged that Tennessee could not promulgate a homestead exemption less beneficial to debtors than that of its federal counterpart, said court effectively reduced § 522(b)(1) to an exercise in legislative futility. As T.C.A. § 26-2-112 is constitutional as challenged, the judgment of the bankruptcy court is REVERSED and this action is REMANDED for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Frye
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.