Warnick v. Louisiana Highway Commission’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 1966 · most notably 36 So. 2d 750 - Rea v. Dow Motor Co. (1948), 60 So. 2d 242 - Watts v. Spikes (1952)
2 federal appellate · 24 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 Gaiennie v. Cooperative Produce Co. · Cusimano v. A. S. Spiess Sales Co. · Matheny v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · 4 So. 2d 79 - Keowen v. Amite Sand Gravel Co. · State Ex Rel. Blocker v. Simmons
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. The trip must have had its origin in the employer’s business. “2. The mental purpose of the employee following departure from employment, must be to return to the next duty, whether that be further work, or the return of the vehicle to the place where it belongs. “3. The purpose to return must have been put into effect by starting the return journey.””
2 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.