Dejoie v. Medley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “means a person, association, legal or commercial entity, the state, or any state agency, board, commission, or political subdivision of the state receiving services from an employee and, in return, giving compensation of any kind to an employee. The provisions of this Chapter shall apply only to an employer who employs twenty or more employees within this state for each working day in each of twenty or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dejoie v. Medley · 990 So. 2d 1291 - Dejoie v. Medley

2. “|7The important determination with respect to the juridical status or legal capacity of an entity is not its creator, nor its size, shape, or label. Rather the determination that must be made in each particular case is whether the entity can appropriately be regarded as an additional and separate government unit for the particular purpose at issue. In the absence of positive law to the contrary, a local government unit may be deemed to be a juridical person separate and distinct from other government entities, when the organic law grants it the legal capacity to function independently and not just as the agency or division of another governmental entity.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stonecipher v. Caddo Parish

3. “), and the State of Louisiana through the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans (”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 990 So. 2d 1291 - Dejoie v. Medley