402 So. 2d 129 - Nelson v. Powers’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 2004
6 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. · Hill v. Lundin & Associates, Inc. · Gonzales v. Xerox Corp. · Pierre v. Allstate Insurance Company · Suhor v. Gusse
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If La.R.S. 32:368 were interpreted to require the placement of warning devices for every temporary obstruction or condition that forces a truck driver to come to a stop, the consequences would be absurd.... If the condition or phenomenon requires more than a temporary stop or if the intensity of the condition seriously impedes or obstructs the vision of other motorists, a driver subject to the provisions of La.R.S. 32:368 must set out the prescribed warning devices if he stops.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sumner v. Sumner“so intense as to prevent the movement of a vehicle”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sumner v. Sumner
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.