Guidry v. Hamlin’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 1994 · most notably 276 So. 2d 286 - Smolinski v. Taulli (1973), Davis v. Royal-Globe Insurance Companies (1970)
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 20 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 Ciaccio v. Carbajal · Heath v. Suburban Building & Loan Ass'n · Biegel v. City of New Orleans · Caulfield v. Saba
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We note the word `ruin' as it appeared in Article 2322 and the word `fall' in Art. 670. The owner is not made liable under either article because there is a `vice' in original construction, unless there is a `ruin' of the building under the one article, or a `fall' of some part of the building under the other. If the framers of the Code had intended to make liability, under either of these articles, depend upon the dangerous design of the building — which is complained of here — they would not have provided that the liability should be made to depend upon the `ruin', or upon the `fall' of some part thereof. Art. 2322 is taken directly from the French Civil Code, in which (in Art. 1386) appear the identical word `ruin' (`ruine'). In the translation of the French Civil Code made by Henry Cachard, who is recognized as an authority on French translation, this word `ruin' appears as `destruction.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * There is nothing dangerous to the normal person in such a rail. There is danger only if there is involved one so young as to be incapable of exercising care, and, in the case of so young a person, everyone is justified in assuming that special attention, or care, or supervision, will be afforded by parents or others in authority.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“There is no duty in the owner of a building, whether to his tenant, or to anyone rightfully within the building, to provide any particular type of construction, unless, of course, the rail, or the stair, or the floor, which is complained of, obviously provides a trap, or is dangerous even to the reasonably prudent person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Golden v. Katz
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.