Denton v. Fontenot’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 2003
7 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 Kientz v. Charles Dennery, Inc. · Bourgeois v. Francois · Smith v. Borchers · McCandless v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Derouen v. American Employers Insurance 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, in LeJeune, 365 So.2d 471 , the supreme court found the negligence of both favored and unfavored drivers can be proximate causes of accidents involving funeral processions. This court in Deshotel v. Southern Farm Bureau Cas. Ins. Co., 224 So.2d 191, 194 , stated the following: If the motorist who has the favorable traffic light sees or should see that the other driver is going to violate his right-of-way, and thereafter the favored driver has a reasonable opportunity to avoid the accident and fails to do so, then the negligence of the latter in failing to take evasive action when he had an opportunity to do so is a proximate cause of the accident. Denton v. Fontenot, La.App. 3rd Cir.1968, 216 So.2d 310 ; Smith v. Borchers, 1962, 243 La. 746 , 146 So.2d 793 ; Vico Insurance Co. v. New Orleans Public Service, Inc., La.App.4th Cir 1965, 177 So.2d 425 ; McDaniel v. Grain Dealers Mutual Insurance Co., La.App. 1st Cir.1966, 182 So.2d 561 ; Martin v. Slocum, La.App. 2nd Cir. 1962, 147 So.2d 454 .”
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.