Ardoin v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The driver of an automobile on the public highways must keep his car a safe distance behind vehicles ahead, traveling in the same direction, and must have his car under proper control so as to avoid striking the car ahead so long as the car ahead is observing the rules of the road. The driver of the front car owes no duty to the car in the rear, except to use the road in the usual way, and, until made aware of it' by proper signal, he has a right to assume either that there is no other car approaching him from the rear, or else, if there is such approaching car, it is under such control as not to interfere with the use of the road in his front or to his side in a lawful manner.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pinchera v. Employers Casualty Co.

2. “evidence of other injuries was introduced without objection on the part of defendants, and, if the pleadings were not large enough to admit this proof, they have been made so by the introduction of this evidence without objection.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Veal v. Audubon Insurance Company of Baton Rouge

3. “in addition to the fracture of her spinal column, other injuries and contusions to her back”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Veal v. Audubon Insurance Company of Baton Rouge