Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance v. McKenzie’s Empirical Analysis
252 F.2d 195 · 1958
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 1977
3 federal appellate · 1 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 Lasyone v. Zenoria Lumber Co. · Davis v. Hochfelder · Guidry v. Hamlin · Benroth v. Continental Casualty Company · Gaida v. Hourgettes
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The key word in the article which permits or forbids its application to a given set of facts is `ruin', a word which has been used by the Louisiana legislature interchangeably with its Latin origin, `falling down.' Franks v. Suthon, C.C., 159 F. 174 . This codal article thus makes the owner of a building answerable for the damage `occasioned by its ruini. e., fall or collapse whether such is due to structural vice or neglect to repair.' Hero v. Hankins, 5 Cir., 247 F. 664, 666 . Likewise and to the same effect is Guidry v. Hamlin, La.App., 188 So. 662 , 664 * * *." (followed by a quotation from the opinion in the last cited case).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The owner of a building is answerable for the damage occasioned by its ruin, when this is caused by neglect to repair it, or when it is the result of a vice in its original construction."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"We have carefully examined the record in this case and find not one scintilla of evidence that Sibley (the home owner) had any knowledge of the splice in question or the manner in which the wiring was installed in his attic."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.