49 So. 2d 770 - Beaucoudray v. Hirsch’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1971
8 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 Fontenelle v. Waguespack · 94 Ind. App. 104 - Davies v. Robinson · Naquin v. Billiott
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is argued on behalf of Hirsch that the deliberately reckless manner in which Beaucoudray drove his automobile was sufficient to cause any reasonable man to lose his temper, and that the court should take this into consideration in passing on the case. “That argument is fully answered by the following passage appearing in 6 C.J.S., Assault and Battery, § 17, page 807: ‘ * * no provocative acts, conduct, former insults, threats, or words, if unaccompanied by any overt act of hostility, will justify an assault, no matter how offensive, or exasperating, nor how much they may be calculated to excite or irritate.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Esnault v. Richard
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.