Duke v. Adkins’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 1992
6 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 Fields v. Owens · Vernon v. Gillham · Monroe Hardware Co. v. Monroe Transfer & Warehouse Co. · Duke v. Adkins.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The driver of a vehicle on a public highway before turning from a direct line must first see that such movement can be made in safety. Rule 10, Section 3, of Act No. 286 of 1938. A left turn is one of the most hazardous movements that can be performed by a motor vehicle and it should not be undertaken except under favorable conditions. Monroe Hardware Company v. Monroe Transfer Warehouse Company, Inc., et al., La.App., 167 So. 498 ; Vernon v. Gillham et al., La.App., 179 So. 476 ; Fields v. Owens, La.App., 186 So. 849 . With the overtaking defendant car in close proximity to the Chevrolet, as above shown, certainly favorable conditions for the maneuver attempted by plaintiff did not exist; and the latter, in view of his appreciation of defendant's speed and nearness, is chargeable with the realization that a turning to the left was unsafe.”
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.