Otillio v. Dolese’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 state decisions

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * Even had plaintiff seen the Dolese vehicle approaching the intersection, he would have been entitled to rely upon the assumption that Michael Dolese would respect his right-of-way. Moreover, he would have been entitled, in reliance on this assumption, to proceed through the intersection or until it became clear to him that Dolese was not going to obey the law. “Our law plainly supports a favored motorist who so proceeds and it is well settled that entering an intersection in reliance upon the duties of intersecting traffic to respect a superior right-of-way is not to be construed as contributory negligence. Indeed, our Supreme Court specifically limits such a conclusion to ‘ * only those exceptional circumstances where the motorist on the favored street could have avoided the accident by the exercise of the slightest sort of observation and care * * * ’. Bourgeois v. Francois, 245 La. 875 , 161 So.2d 750 (1964).””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 237 So. 2d 902 - Higgins v. Gaule