Sinitiere v. Lavergne’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 232 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 239 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably 605 So. 2d 1032 - Roberts v. Benoit (1992), 739 So. 2d 191 - Magnon v. Collins (1999)
4 federal appellate · 232 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 Dixie Drive It Yourself System New Orleans Co. v. American Beverage Co. · 372 So. 2d 1197 - Rue v. State, Dept. of Highways · 284 So. 2d 905 - Lombard v. Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans · 353 So. 2d 249 - Carollo v. Wilson · 283 So. 2d 482 - Gulotta v. Cutshaw
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 239 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“extends to the protection of those people who may be foreseeably placed in danger by an unreasonably dangerous condition.”
33 later decisions quote this exact passage“requires a proximate relation between the actions of a defendant and the harm which occurs and such relation must be substantial in character.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]f a person is chargeable with knowledge of a shoulder defect that could cause serious injury and, nevertheless, disregards his own safety and the safety of others, the law considers his actions in leaving the main travel portion of the roadway to be a breach of his duty to himself and to the others who can reasonably be expected to be injured by his actions.”
8 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.