Kemp v. Fourmy’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 1999
8 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 Reeves v. Barbe · Cortinez v. Flournoy · 188 So. 2d 178 - MacAluso v. Watson · Winzer v. Lewis · 223 So. 2d 233 - Texas Gas Transmission Corporation v. Gagnard
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Our law is to the effect that the owner of a vehicle is not responsible to a third party for the negligence of the driver of that vehicle unless he knew or should have known that the driver was incompetent. Morton v. American Employers Insurance Company, La.App., 104 So.2d 189 (2nd Cir. 1958); Macaluso v. Watson, La. App., 188 So.2d 178 (4th Cir. 1966) writ refused, 249 La. 743 , 190 So.2d 910 (1966); Asher v. Good, La.App., 198 So.2d 434 (4th Cir. 1966); Winzer v. Lewis, La.App., 251 So.2d 650 (2nd Cir. 1971) writ refused, 259 La. 934 , 253 So.2d 379 (1971)."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““If an owner knows that a licensed driver is incompetent, he risks responsibility to a third party injured through that incompetence if he allows that driver to operate his vehicle.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eppinette v. Smelser
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.