State v. Barbier’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2017
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 617 So. 2d 885 - Touchard v. Williams · Melancon v. Mizell · 633 So. 2d 1268 - Moore v. Gencorp, Inc. · Green v. Louisiana Underwriters Ins. Co. · State Ex Rel. Thompson v. Department of City Civil Service
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]he task of statutory construction begins with an examination of the language of the statute itself ... When the law is clear and unambiguous and its application does not lead to absurd consequences, the law shall be applied as written, and no further interpretation may be made in search of the intent of the legislature." State v. Barbier, 98-2923 (La.9/8/99); 743 So.2d 1236, 1238 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“F, Probable cause for violation of this Section shall be based solely upon a law enforcement officer’s clear and unobstructed view of a person not restrained as required by this Section. A law enforcement officer may not search or inspect a motor vehicle, its contents, the driver, or a passenger solely because of a violation of this Section.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“F. No vehicle, driver or passenger in a vehicle, shall be inspected, detained, or searched solely because of a violation of or to determine compliance with this Section.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.