State v. Fleury’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
39 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 477 So. 2d 1094 - Sibley v. Bd. of Sup'rs of Louisiana State University · 366 So. 2d 1381 - Burmaster v. Gravity Drainage Dist. No. 2 · 567 So. 2d 75 - Moore v. Roemer · 380 So. 2d 1361 - State v. Goode · 328 So. 2d 110 - State v. Newton
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No person shall be denied the equal protection of the laws. No law shall discriminate against a person because of race or religious ideas, beliefs, or affiliations. No law shall arbitrarily, capriciously, or unreasonably discriminate against a person because of birth, age, sex, culture, physical condition, or political ideas or affiliations. Slavery and involuntary servitude are prohibited, except in the latter case as punishment for crime.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Granger · State v. Citizen“[t]he party challenging the constitutionality of a statute must also cite to the specific provision of the constitution which prohibits the legislative action.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Article I, Section 3 commands the courts to decline enforcement of a legislative classification of individuals in three different situations: (1) When the law classifies individuals by race or religious beliefs, it shall be repudiated completely; (2) When the statute classifies persons on the basis of birth, age, sex, culture, physical condition or political ideas or affiliations, its enforcement shall be refused unless the state or other advocate of the classification shows that the classification has a reasonable basis; (3) When the law classifies individuals on any other basis, it shall be rejected whenever a member of a disadvantaged class shows that it does not suitably further any appropriate state interest.”
2 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.