Dixon v. Hughes’s Empirical Analysis

1991

Citation profile

cited by 31 later decisions

states following

August 2018

most recently cited

31 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 899 So. 2d 535 - Landiak v. Richmond (2005), 854 So. 2d 864 - Becker v. Dean (2003)

31 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 State Ex Rel. LeBlanc v. Henderson · 374 So. 2d 755 - Slocum v. DeWitt · Slocum v. Dewitt · 318 So. 2d 917 - Charbonnet v. Hayes · Charbonnet v. Hayes

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

“so as to promote rather than defeat candidacy.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 990 So. 2d 99 - Williams v. Fahrenholtz · 630 So. 2d 852 - Butler v. Cantrell
“§ 492. Grounds for an objection to candidacy A. An action objecting to the candidacy of a person who qualified as a candidate in a primary election shall be based on one or more of the following grounds: * * * (5) The defendant falsely certified on his notice of candidacy that he does not owe any outstanding fines, fees, or penalties pursuant to the Campaign Finance Disclosure Act as provided in R.S. 18:463(A)(2).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
e.g. 253 So. 3d 815 - North v. Doucet · 929 So. 2d 176 - Louisiana State Bd. of Ethics v. Garrett
“An elector who at the time of qualification as a candidate has attained the age of eighteen years, resided in the state for the preceding two years, and been actually domiciled for the preceding year in the legislative district from which he seeks election is eligible for membership in the legislature.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
e.g. Morton v. Hicks · 780 So. 2d 1048 - Russell v. Goldsby

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.