Dotson v. Matthews’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2025
11 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 Bitoun v. Landry · 365 So. 2d 1285 - Olsen v. Shell Oil Co. · 462 So. 2d 166 - Bell v. Jet Wheel Blast, Div. of Ervin Industries · Holland v. Buckley · 475 So. 2d 1047 - Weber v. Charity Hosp. of Louisiana
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“which exonerates a person from his own obligation importing strict liability is that which is the sole cause of the damage, of the nature of an irresistible and unforeseen occurrence, i.e., where the damage resulting has no causal relationship whatsoever to the fault of the owner in failing to keep his building in repair, and where the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“on the shoulder or in the ditch adjoining a `roadway' is not subject to `all of the duties applicable to the driving of a vehicle,'”
1 later decision 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.