150 So. 2d 646 - Sloan v. Flack’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 1998
21 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. State Farm Mut. Auto Ins. Co. · Herget v. Saucier · Rodriguez v. State Farm Mut. Insurance Co. · McAllister v. Travelers Insurance Co. · Otis v. New Orleans Public Service, 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Negligence involves conduct which is fraught with unreasonable likelihood of harm to others. Contributory negligence involves such likelihood of harm to oneself or to one’s own interests’, 2 Harper & James, The Law of Torts (1956), Section 22.10 (p. 1227). ‘Negligence as it is commonly understood is conduct which creates an undue risk of harm to others. Contributory negligence is conduct which involves an undue risk of harm to the actor himself.’ Prosser on Torts (2nd Ed., 1955), Section 51, p. 285. (Italics Supplied). ‘The distinction lies in that negligence involves any risk to another, whereas contributory negligence involves a risk of injury to the one injured’, 65 C.J. S. Negligence § 116, pp. 707-708. (Italics Supplied). “ ‘Contributory negligence is conduct for which plaintiff is responsible, amounting to a breach of duty which the law imposes on persons to protect themselves from injury’, 65 C.J.S. Negligence § 116, p. 706. (Italics supplied.) ‘Contributory negligence is conduct on the part of the plaintiff, contributing as a legal cause to which he is required to conform for his ozvn protection. In general, it resembles negligence, except that the element of duty to another does not enter’, Prosser, Section 51, p. 282. (Italics Supplied).””
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.