Loescher v. Parr’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 517 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 563 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Arceneaux v. Domingue (1978), Sistler v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co. (1990)
28 federal appellate · 517 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 Canter v. Koehring Company · Langlois v. Allied Chemical Corporation · Blanchard v. Ogima · Klein v. Young · Chaney v. Travelers Insurance Company
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 563 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are responsible, not only for the damage occasioned by our own act, but for that which is caused by the act of persons for whom we are answerable, or of the things which we have in our custody. This, however, is to be understood with the following modifications.”
120 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he things in one's care are those things to which one bears such a relationship as to have the right of direction and control over them, and to draw some kind of benefit from them.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage“The owner of a building is answerable for the damage occasioned by its ruin, when this is caused by neglect to repair it, or when it is the result of a vice in its original construction.”
9 later decisions 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.