550 So. 2d 891 - Roberson v. State Through DOTD’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2016
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 388 So. 2d 737 - Jones v. CITY OF BATON ROUGE, ETC. · 395 So. 2d 727 - Shipp v. City of Alexandria · 339 So. 2d 780 - United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company v. State, Department of Highways · 423 So. 2d 674 - Naylor v. La. Dept. of Public Highways · 427 So. 2d 439 - Naylor v. LOUISIANA DEPT. OF TRANSP. & DEV.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Counsel cites no cases and this court is aware of none which specifically require a highway department to have crews constantly alerted to cover iced bridges or that require a constant surveillance of weather conditions to anticipate the need for such action. The weather reports of the previous day and into the early part of the night do not indicate such a likelihood of bridges icing over as to require that the department have an overnight crew standing by. . . . [sic] that the weather forecasts for the previous day were not such as to indicate the necessity for an overnight watch of weather conditions if such is ever so." (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“To impose a constant monitoring duty on DOTD would be unreasonable and unrealistic.”
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.