Palmer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Arceneaux v. Domingue · Dixie Drive It Yourself System New Orleans Co. v. American Beverage Co. · Hill v. Lundin & Associates, Inc. · Koob v. Cooperative Cab Co. · Laird 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... the driver on the favored thoroughfare, Sepulvado had the right to assume the vehicle on the intersecting street would stop and yield the right of way, and he could continue under this assumption until such time he saw or should have seen that the other vehicle was ignoring the stop sign. Koob v. Cooperative Cab Company, supra [ 213 La. 903 , 35 So.2d 849 (1948) ]; Bourgeois v. Francois, 245 La. 875 , 161 So.2d 750 (1964); Fontenot v. Lucas, 228 So.2d 211 (La.App. 3 Cir.1969), writ denied, 255 La. 279 , 230 So.2d 587 (1970); Otillio v. Dolese, 236 So.2d 646 (La.App. 4 Cir. 1970); Clark v. Allstate Insurance Company, 279 So.2d 237 (La.App. 2 Cir. 1973); Triche v. Commercial Union Insurance Company, 329 So.2d 784 (La. App. 1 Cir.1976). Furthermore, it is only in the exceptional case where the right-of-way motorist could have avoided the accident by the exercise of the very slightest degree of care that he will be considered guilty of negligence. Bourgeois v. Francois, supra; Otillio v. Dolese, supra; Clark v. Allstate Insurance Company, supra; Triche v. Commercial Union Insurance Company, supra."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A cause in fact is a substantial factor in the chain of events culminating in an accident. It is a ‘necessary antecedent.’ Without it the accident would not have taken place. If the accident would have occurred, regardless of such cause, such cause was not a cause in fact. Dixie Drive-it-Yourself System, supra.” “Therefore, if the accident would have occurred, irrespective of the negligence of the defendants, then their negligence is not a substantial factor or cause in fact.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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