119 So. 2d 621 - Toppi v. Arbour’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably St. Paul v. MacKenroth (1964), United States v. Parish of St. Bernard (1985)
1 federal appellate · 24 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 White v. City of Alexandria · Arata v. Orleans Capitol Stores, Inc. · Duree v. Maryland Casualty Company · Stephens v. Natchitoches Parish School Board · 114 So. 2d 62 - Carlisle v. Parish of East Baton Rouge
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]t [the statute] does not expressly relieve the City of its primary obligation to maintain public sidewalks. Neither does the statute state that the obligation therein imposed upon the property owner shall be exclusive of the obligation otherwise imposed upon the municipality. We believe Oct 31 of 1904 is merely legislative recognition of the principle that a municipality may hold an adjoining property owner financially responsible for the costs of repairing and maintaining sidewalks and constitutes nothing more than express authority for the .City of Baton Rouge to apply said principle within the municipality.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The owner or occupant of property abutting a sidewalk is not an insurer of the safety of pedestrians using the sidewalk, and, as a general rule, in the absence of statute, he owes no duty to the public to keep the sidewalk in repair or in a safe condition for travel, and is not liable for injuries to a traveler from defects or obstructions which he did not create."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The defendant Parish most persuasively applies for rehearing, upon the premise, inter alia, that, if the legislature cannot waive governmental immunity from tort liability (Stephens v. Natchitoches Parish School Board, 238 La. 388 , 115 So.2d 793 ; Duree v. Maryland Casualty Co., 238 La. 166 , 114 So.2d 594 ), then neither can the courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.