Aaron v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 1989 · most notably White v. State Farm Mut. Auto Ins. Co. (1953), Squyres v. Baldwin (1938)
4 federal appellate · 27 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 Kirk v. United Gas Public Service Co. · Lorance v. Smith · State v. Armbruster · Delaune v. Breaux · Aaron v. Martin
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * As was said by this court in Delaune v. Breaux, ( 174 La. 43 , 139 So. 753, 755 ) supra: "`A guest * * * must exercise reasonable care and diligence to protect himself by making it possible for the driver to avoid an accident.' "In Lorance v. Smith, ( 173 La. 883 , 138 So. 871, 876 ) supra, we said: "`A guest or a gratuitous passenger in a motor vehicle cannot recover for injuries due to the negligence of his host if he is aware of and acquiesces in the negligence.' "In that case we quoted approvingly the following from 42 C.J. 1170, § 948: "`(But an occupant of a motor vehicle may not) abandon the exercise of his own faculties and intrust his safety absolutely to the driver, regardless of the imminence of danger, or the visible lack of ordinary care on the part of the driver to avoid all harm. If he fails to use ordinary care, including the exercise of his own senses of sight, hearing and perception, to protect himself under such circumstances, he is guilty of contributory negligence.'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In that case we quoted approvingly the following from 42 C.J. 1170, § 948:”
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.