Clark v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"Equal protection requires that state laws or rules and actions of an administrative agency affect alike all persons and interests similarly situated. However, persons or interests may be treated differently by an administrative agency if there is a rational basis for the differentiation which is reasonably related to a valid governmental purpose. Succession of Thompson, 367 So.2d 796 (La.1979)."— at 1278.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 492 So. 2d 27 - Latona v. Dept. of State Civil Service

2. “A major intent and purpose of Civil Service is to insure uniformity among employees covered thereby, to the end that such employees in a particular class will enjoy equal and uniform rights with others in the same class regardless of the department, agency, board or commission in which they may be employed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 612 So. 2d 244 - Marie v. City of New Orleans

3. “The State not only has an interest in recruiting employees, it also has an interest in making the position attractive enough to retain those employees.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 650 So. 2d 811 - Roby v. BD. OF TRUSTEES OF EMPLOYEES'RETIREMENT SYS. OF NEW ORLEANS