Babineaux v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Washington Fire & Marine Insurance v. Firemen's Insurance · 95 So. 2d 757 - Benenate v. Brooks · Mooney v. American Automobile Insurance Co. · Dudley v. Surles · 64 So. 2d 257 - Martin v. Globe Indemnity Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The cases are legion which hold that before making a left turn the driver of an automobile must ascertain that he may do so safely; not only is this cardinal rule of the road founded on common sense, but in our State is a positive enactment, incorporated in the Revised Statutes as R.S. 32:235, by the terms of which it is the mandatory duty of the driver of any vehicle on the highways of this State to ascertain, before turning upon any highway, that there is no traffic, vehicle or pedestrian, approaching from either direction which will be unduly delayed; and said driver `shall yield the right-of-way to such approaching traffic and shall not attempt to make a turn unless the way is clear * * *.'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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