Giles v. Cain’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “no deference is owed by the court of appeal to factual findings or legal conclusions of the district court, just as no deference is owed by the Louisiana Supreme Court to factual findings or legal conclusions of the court of appeal.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Comm-Care Corp. v. LOUISIANA TAX COM'N · 905 So. 2d 353 - Cochrane v. Louisiana Tax Com'n

2. “LSA-R.S. 15:1171-1177 provide the statutory authority for the administrative review procedure established and followed by the penal institution.... This procedure is designed to receive, hear, and dispose of `any and all complaints and grievances by adult or juvenile offenders against the state, the governor, the department or any officials or employees thereof ...' and includes appeals of disciplinary actions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 770 So. 2d 382 - Victorian v. Stalder

3. “the incident report was defined in the Disciplinary Rules to cover conduct which does not violate a specific disciplinary rule, but poses a disciplinary threat to the institution.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Giles v. Cain