Hoover v. Wagner’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 1981
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 Gaspard v. LeMaire · Dixie Drive It Yourself System New Orleans Co. v. American Beverage Co. · Home Gas & Fuel Co. v. Mississippi Tank Co. · Brabson v. Durham · Harvey v. Great American Indemnity Company
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.
““Conceding our complete accord with the now well established rule that violation of the hereinabove cited statutory prohibition against passing at an intersection constitutes negligence per se, we are nevertheless unaware of any rule to the effect that such violation ipso facto renders the offending driver liable for all injuries which may result therefrom to other parties regardless of the attending circumstances. “It is elementary that negligence is not actionable unless it constitutes a proximate cause of the injury sued upon, Home Gas & Fuel Co. v. Mississippi Tank Co., 246 La. 625 , 166 So.2d 252 ; Bodan v. American Employers’ Insurance Company, La.App., 160 So.2d 410 , or as stated by the Supreme Court in Dixie Drive It Yourself System New Orleans Co. v. American Beverage Company, et al., 242 La. 471 , 137 So.2d 298 , unless it amounts to a cause in fact of the accident. “It is also the firmly entrenched law of this state that to constitute proximate cause as distinguished from remote cause, the negligent act must be the primary or moving cause of the injury, or that cause which, in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient intervening cause, produces the injury and without which the accident could not have happened, provided the injury is of a nature reasonably anticipatable or foreseeable as a natural consequence of the wrongful act. Dixie Drive It Yourself System New Orleans Co. v. American Beverage Co., 242 La. 471 , 137 So.2d 298 ; Sumrall v. Aet”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"(2) when approaching within one hundred feet of or traversing any intersection or railroad grade crossing;"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"A. No vehicle shall at any time be driven to the left side of the highway under the following conditions:”
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.