Hughes v. Abate’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 1961
9 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 Klein v. Young · Boutte v. New Orleans Terminal Co. · Tesoro v. Abate · Heath v. Suburban Building & Loan Ass'n · Morris v. Hava
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * To state the matter very simply, an owner is liable to any person rightfully on or near the premises if, because of a defect, that person, being himself without fault, is injured. Klein v. Young, 163 La. 59 , 111 So. 495 ; Heath v. Suburban Building & Loan Association, La.App., 163 So. 546 ; Tesoro v. Abate, La.App., 173 So. 196 ; Morris v. Hava, La.App., 180 So. 216 ."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wallace v. Meyer · Green v. Billa“* * * unless there is evidence which would indicate the defect to be so serious as to endanger the life or body of the user, the courts have held that the continued use thereof does not constitute contributory negligence”
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.