367 So. 2d 83 - DeCastro v. Boylan’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2018
1 federal appellate · 13 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 Pierre v. Allstate Insurance Company · Ball v. Christie · Call v. Huffman · 52 So. 2d 573 - Midkiff v. Watkins · 279 So. 2d 775 - Roach v. Liberty Mutual 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[B]ased on the well established rule in Louisiana that the leaving of ignition keys in an unattended automobile does not of itself constitute negligence on the part of the owner and he owes no duty to the public at large against the risk of a thief's negligent operation of the automobile.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“does not go as far as to protect a plaintiff from being negligently injured by one who has stolen his car with the keys left in it[,]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the solitary act of leaving a car unlocked with the keys inside cannot be the proximate cause of a subsequent tort committed by an unauthorized user of the vehicle.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Palestina v. Molero
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.