King v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 120 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably Boudreaux v. American Insurance Company (1972), 564 So. 2d 654 - Cangelosi v. OUR LADY OF LAKE REG. MED. CTR. (1990)
2 federal appellate · 120 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 Larkin v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · Vowell v. Manufacturers Casualty Insurance Co. · West v. Monroe Bakery, Inc. · Wise v. Prescott · Pilie v. National Food Stores of Louisiana, Inc.
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“King v. King, 253 La. 270 , 217 So.2d 395, 397 (1968); `Res ipsa loquitur is a rule of circumstantial evidence. Its applicability is determined at the conclusion of the trial. The rule applies when the facts shown suggest the negligence of the defendant as the most plausible explanation of the accident.' (Italics ours.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * a guest is under no duty to supervise the driving of the vehicle and he is not obliged to look out for sudden or unexpected dangers that may arise. Albeit, he has the right to place reliance upon the driver to discharge that obligation and, as aptly expressed by the Court of Appeal, Second Circuit, in Singley v. Thomas, 49 So.2d 465 , 469 `* * * is not required to monitor the operation or to pay attention to the road and other traffic conditions' in the absence of a showing that he has actual or constructive knowledge that the driver is incompetent or unfit to operate the vehicle. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Contributory negligence is an affirmative defense and the burden rests upon the defendant to establish it by a preponderance of the evidence. Ginlee v. Helg, 251 La. 261 , 203 So.2d 714 ; Theunissen v. Guidry, 244 La. 631 , 153 So.2d 869 ; D & D Planting Co. v. Employers Casualty Co., 240 La. 684 , 124 So.2d 908 .””
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.