345 So. 2d 141 - Mitchell v. Sigrest’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 1993
9 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 · Jackson v. Cook · Rottman v. Beverly · Dyson v. Gulf Modular Corp. · 226 So. 2d 911 - Stewart v. State
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . However, when it comes to reviewing the facts, we, as an intermediate appellate court, are clearly not in as good a position as the trial court to find the facts of a given situation. The trier deals face-to-face with the litigants and their counsel and sees the witnesses eye-to-eye as the situation giving rise to the action is verbally reenacted.” Mitchell v. Sigrest, 345 So.2d 141 (La.App. 1st Cir. 1977), at p. 144.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““It appears that last clear chance was developed by the jurisprudence of this state in order to temper the harsh effects of the doctrine of contributory negligence. See Rozas, The Last Clear Chance Doctrine in Louisiana — An Analysis and Critique (Comment), 27 La.L.Rev. 269 (1967). Thus, last clear chance does not come into play until the evidence shows negligence on the part of both the plaintiff and the defendant. Hebert v. Meibaum, 209 La. 156 , 24 So.2d 297 (1945); Butter v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., 265 So.2d 252 (La.App. 1 Cir. 1972); St. Amant v. Travelers Insurance Company, 233 So.2d 23 (La.App. 4 Cir. 1970); Malone, Torts, 22 La.L.Rev. 338, 344 (1962).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parr v. Vicari
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.