Odom v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 1970
15 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 Gaiennie v. Cooperative Produce Co. · 18 La. App. 169 - Locke v. Shreveport Laundries, 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The testimony is not conclusive as to whether the taillights on the trailer were burning. Whether they were burning or not has no controlling influence .on the question of proximate cause of the collision. That cause is clearly traceable to plaintiff’s own negligence in not seeing the trailer in time to avert the collision, and this, too, regardless of whether the lights were burning or'not. The trailer’s body consisted of boards some 25 inches high, and its rear end presented a solid wall to plaintiff as he drew near it. It was his duty to’ have seen the trailer in time to avoid running into it and no valid reason in law is given, nor does any appear, why he did not timely see ‡ ‡ »”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. King v. Rabalais
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.