Harris v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2011
13 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 Arceneaux v. Domingue · 232 So. 2d 851 - Poche v. Frazier · Friday v. Mutz · 314 So. 2d 535 - Michel v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins. Co. · 369 So. 2d 1120 - Parker v. Travelers Ins. Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Louisiana, owners of motor vehicles are ordinarily not personally liable for damages which occur while another is operating the vehicle. Exceptions to this rule occur only when the driver is on a mission for the owner of the vehicle, when the driver is an agent or employee of the owner, and when the owner is himself negligent in entrusting the vehicle to an incompetent driver.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Under the provisions of C.C.P. art. 1812 and C.C. art. 2324, this court has previously recognized that liability may be assessed against a non-party, resulting in reduction of the plaintiff's recovery to the extent of the non-party's liability.”
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.