Lopes v. Sahuque’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently January 1974 · most notably Dixie Drive It Yourself System New Orleans Co. v. American Beverage Co. (1962), 289 So. 2d 104 - Jones v. Robbins (1974)
63 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 Railroad Company v. Stout · Union Pac Ry Co v. McDonald · Railroad Company v. Jones · Black v. Carrollton Railroad · Westerfield v. Levis Bros.
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Negligence consists in the neglect of the use of ordinary care or skill towards a person to whom the defendant owes the duty of observing care or skill, to avoid a danger which should have been foreseen, by reason of which neglect the plaintiff, without contributory negligence on his part, has suffered injury to his person or property. * * *"”
1 later decision 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.