Lane v. Bourgeois’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 24 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It is we'll established in our jurisprudence and in our law that the making of a left turn on a much travelled highway is a very dangerous operation, requiring great care and caution. The responsibility for seeing that such a left turn can be made in safety is placed upon the driver desiring to make such left turn. The law, Highway Regulatory Act of 1938 (Rule 9, Section 3 of Act 286), requires a driver to ascertain before making such a left turn that there is no traffic approaching from either direction which will be unduly or unnecessarily delayed and requires him to yield the right of way to such approaching traffic.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 123 So. 2d 658 - McKay v. Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Company · 34 So. 2d 264 - Michelli v. Rheem Mfg. Co.

2. “This court, in the last few years, has had to deal with a number of cases like this and in each it was stated in the opinion that the maneuver is a very dangerous operation, requiring care and caution and the responsibility for seeing that it can be made in safety is always placed upon the driver desiring to make such a turn. He is required to ascertain that there is no traffic approaching from either side and if there is, he must yield the right of way to such traffic. He can only ascertain if there is no such traffic by keeping a careful look-out. If he does not, necessarily he is guilty of negligence. If he looks at a time when looking is not effective and he does not see the traffic he should see, likewise, under the law he is negligent for having failed to see what he should have seen. That is the law as laid down in some of these late cases, most notably those of Murray v. Kaufman, La. App., 22 So.2d 750 , Grasser v. Cunningham, La. App., 200 So. 658 , and Magazine Lumber Co. v. DePaula, La. App., 197 So. 806 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 29 So. 2d 805 - Harris v. Bigby

3. “shall yield the right of way to all vehicles approaching on such public highway * * *.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 29 So. 2d 805 - Harris v. Bigby