124 So. 2d 607 - Fontenot v. LaFleur’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2006
19 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 Vowell v. Manufacturers Casualty Insurance Co. · Dodge v. Bituminous Casualty Corporation · Suire v. Winters · McElveen v. Gant · 18 La. App. 169 - Locke v. Shreveport Laundries, Inc.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * a night motorist is not negligent for a failure to perceive and a consequent failure to avoid colliding with an obscured vehicle obstructing his path on the traveled portion of the highway, if such motorist could not reasonably have anticipated that his traffic lane was so obstructed * * *.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"* * * The plaintiff's negligent failure to remove his disabled vehicle from the traveled lanes of the highway as soon as possible and especially to protect traffic approaching from his rear by adequate lights and signals was a proximate cause of this accident. Suire v. Winters, 233 La. 585 , 97 So.2d 404 ; Dodge v. Bituminous Casualty Corp., 214 La. 1031 , 39 So.2d 720 ; Puissegur v. Louque, La.App. 1 Cir., 113 So.2d 795 ; Gaines v. Hardware Mutual Casualty Co., La.App. 1 Cir., 86 So.2d 218 ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. Quebedeaux
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.