Wyche v. Brian’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"A motorist must be held to duty of seeing what he should have seen. "Where facts disclosed that plaintiff driving automobile at reasonable speed on right-of-way street could have seen defendant motorist crossing intersection and that defendant made no attempt to continue a lookout for traffic on right-of-way street, notwithstanding defendant could have brought her automobile to almost immediate stop, plaintiff and defendant were guilty of concurrent negligence which was proximate cause of accident, and neither could recover for resulting damages."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 69 So. 2d 527 - Comeaux v. Blanchet

2. ““Plaintiff in this, case is barred from recovery despite the negligence of defendant by the fact that he, too, was guilty of the same character of negligence in failing to keep a proper lookout and to see what he should have seen. In Stuckey v. Hayden, La.App., 3 So.2d 443 , the Court stated this rule of caution to the effect that the right-of-way which a motorist is accorded on a through street did not confer upon him the correlative right to ignore the rights of others.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rachow v. Ringwald

3. “It is evident that neither plaintiff nor defendant saw what could and should have been seen. It is further evident that either plaintiff or defendant could have avoided the accident by exercising even a normal and reasonable degree of care.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 30 So. 2d 152 - Dickinson v. Hammett