Bailey v. Simon’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 1986
1 district · 11 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 15 La. App. 603 - Horrell v. Gulf & Valley Cotton Oil Co. · Reeves v. Globe Indemnity Co. of New York · James v. City of New Orleans · Baader v. Driverless Cars, Inc. · Underwood v. Gulf Refining Co.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * that, since issue had been joined in the case at the time the exception of no right of action was sustained, the plaintiffs should not now be permitted to amend their petition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“per se such as ferocious animals, locomotives, gunpowder, dynamite or other dangerous machines or agencies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An automobile may become a "dangerous instrumentality”
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.