Blanchard v. Blanchard’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 1984
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
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Relationships
Relies on Rogers v. Blake · Fancher v. Cadwell · Schafer v. Stevens · Fancher v. Cadwell
Most-quoted passages
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“"The writer concurs that an affirmance is justified, whether Texas or Louisiana law supplies the duty of the defendant Louisiana driver toward his plaintiff Louisiana passenger. In our court's opinion, we assume, most favorably to the occassion to pass without noting that as the law of the place of the tort, i. e., Texas where the accident occurred. "Nevertheless, the writer did not wish the occasion to pass without nothing that there is in truth little reason for Texas law to furnish the duty to be enforced by a Louisiana court in a suit between Louisiana residents arising out of an accident of a car based and insured in Louisiana. "The `law of the place of the tort' is not a rule provided by statute. It is rather a jurisprudential principle rather lately imported into Louisiana. It is a principle which is being repudiated as arbitrary and not founded upon sound reasons of law or policy, both by the courts of many other jurisdictions and also by the proposed Second Restatement of the Law of Conflict of Laws. "See Comment, Conflict of Laws in Louisiana: Tort, 39 Tul.L.Rev. 96 (1964); Weintraub, Revolution in the Choice of Law for Torts, 51 American Bar Ass'n Journal 441 (May, 1965); Reese, Conflict of Laws and the Restatement Second, 28 Law and Contemporary Problems 679 (1963; Ehrenzweig, The "Most Significant Relationship" in the Conflicts Law of Torts, 28 Law and Contemporary Problems 700 (1963); Symposium (by leading conflict-of-law scholars) on Babcock v. Jackson, 63 Colu”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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