Francis v. Morial’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably 640 So. 2d 237 - City of New Orleans v. Board of Com'rs (1994), 739 So. 2d 748 - City of New Orleans v. Bd. of Dir. of State Museum (1999)
35 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 138 Ohio St. 540 - Direct Plumbing Supply Co. v. City of Dayton · Schwegmann Bros. v. Louisiana Board of Alcoholic Beverage Control · Barrett v. . State of New York · St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Griffin · Banjavich v. Louisiana Licensing Board for Marine Divers
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may include the exercise of any power and performance of any function necessary, requisite, or proper for the management of its affairs, not denied by general law or inconsistent with this constitution.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“inherent power to govern persons and things, within constitutional limits, for promotion of general health, safety, welfare, and morals.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[n]otwithstanding any provision of this Article, the police power of the state shall never be abridged.”
5 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.