Teche Lines, Inc. v. Gorum’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 1973 · most notably Gross v. Teche Lines, Inc. (1945), Dane v. Canal Insurance Company (1960)
27 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 Schick v. Jenevein · Southall v. Smith · 19 La. App. 548 - Palmisano v. Schadwell · Mente & Co. v. Kaplan · 19 La. App. 743 - Lacy v. Lucky
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"An automobile driver who, by the negligence of another and not by his own negligence, is suddenly placed in an emergency and compelled to act instantly to avoid a collision or injury is not guilty of negligence if he makes such a choice as a person of ordinary prudence placed in such a position might make, even though he did not make the wisest choice and one that would have been required in the exercise of ordinary care, but for the emergency." Followed in Teche Lines v. Gorum, 202 La. 993 , 13 So.2d 291, 293 , (1943).”
4 later decisions 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.