Ponthieu v. Coco’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 1972
13 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 Miller v. Meche · Finkelstein v. Naihaus · Randall v. Ridgley · Manuel v. Ardoin · Newman v. Southern Kraft Corporation.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The courts of Louisiana have consistently held that before a plaintiff can recover damages under such circumstances, it must be affirmatively shown that the plaintiff did not provoke the difficulty or was not at fault in provoking it,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Middleton v. Shaw“The Court is satisfied if the plaintiff had not come out in the road and called out to defendant to wait, but had remained at his post working on his automobile, the original trouble would have ended.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ogden v. Thomas
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.