Williams v. Charles’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We are aware, of course, of our settled jurisprudence holding a motorist to a high degree of care when he knows, or should know, that small children are in his immediate vicinity, particularly when the children are not under the care of an older person. But a motorist is not the insurer of the safety of such children, whether or not fault exists on his part depends upon the facts and circumstances of each particular case, and the manner in which a reasonably prudent man would have acted under the same facts and circumstances is the test used in determining fault. Brown v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., 234 La. 860 , 101 So.2d 696 ; Kessinger v. Ashford, La. App., 165 So.2d 534 ; Ferrara v. Allstate Insurance Co., La.App., 152 So.2d 252 ; Bloodworth v. Hutchinson, La.App., 150 So.2d 877 ; Schuster v. Audubon Insurance Company, La.App., 147 So.2d 226 ; Layfield v. Bourgeois, La.App., 142 So. 2d 799 ; Gross v. Zeringue, La.App., 58 So.2d 294 . “Here it was the sudden act of the boy in running from between parked vehicles into the moving defendant hearse which caused the accident, an accident which the defendant driver was unable to avoid. * * * ” 171 So.2d at 833 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bryan v. Durr