Pattan v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2015
20 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 549 So. 2d 840 - Rosell v. Esco · 617 So. 2d 880 - Stobart v. State Through DOTD · Arceneaux v. Domingue · Canter v. Koehring Company · Mart v. Hill
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that in which he makes his habitual residence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Generally, the laws governing the conduct of elections should be liberally construed so as to promote rather than to defeat a candidacy. Any doubt as to the qualifications of a candidate should be resolved in favor of permitting the candidate to run for public office.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Touchet v. Broussard“domicile is an issue of fact to be determined on a case-by-case inquiry. As in any case, the factual findings of the trial court will not be disturbed on appeal unless clearly wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.