Follins v. Barrow’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Canter v. Koehring Company · Dixie Drive It Yourself System New Orleans Co. v. American Beverage Co. · Laird v. Travelers Insurance Company · 265 So. 2d 322 - Dillman v. Allstate Insurance Company · Desselle v. State, Department of Public Highways
Most-quoted passages
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“"To determine cause in fact, courts will carefully scrutinize all the evidence, and those acts will be adjudged causes in fact when it is found that more probably than not they were necessary ingredients of the accident. Stated otherwise, an act will be deemed a cause in fact of an accident only when, viewed in the light of all the evidence, it is concluded that it is a substantial factor without which the accident would not have happened. Laird , above." Follins, supra, page 611. See also Geismar General Gas Corporation, 182 So.2d 769 (La.App. 1st Cir. 1966), where this court held there must be a causal relationship between acts complained of and the results thereof to have liability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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