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921 So. 2d 51 - Savage v. Prator’s Empirical Analysis

2006

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
November 2007
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 640 So. 2d 237 - City of New Orleans v. Board of Com'rs · City of Alexandria v. La Combe · 54 So. 2d 433 - Ballinger v. Smith · 357 So. 2d 1078 - City of Shreveport v. Curry · National Food Stores of Louisiana, Inc. v. Cefalu

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

  1. “(A) Authority to Adopt; Commission. Subject to and not inconsistent with this constitution, any local governmental subdivision may draft, adopt, or amend a home rule charter in accordance with this Section. The governing authority of a local governmental subdivision may appoint a commission to prepare and propose a charter or an alternate charter, or it may call an election to elect such a commission. * * * * * (E) Structure and Organization; Powers; Functions. A home rule charter adopted under this Section shall provide the structure and organization, powers, and functions of the government of the local governmental subdivision, which may include the exercise of any power and performance of any function necessary, requisite, or proper for the management of its affairs, not denied by general law or inconsistent with this constitution.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Hudson v. City of Bossier City
  2. “includes a complicated set of provisions governing the powers of `local governmental subdivision[s],' a term that covers both parishes and municipalities.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Hudson v. City of Bossier City

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.