Codifer v. Occhipinti’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 1987 · most notably Washington Fire & Marine Insurance v. Firemen's Insurance (1957), American Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. Drexler (1955)
3 federal appellate · 30 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 34 So. 2d 264 - Michelli v. Rheem Mfg. Co. · Lane v. Bourgeois · 29 So. 2d 551 - Home Ins. Co. v. Warren · 44 So. 2d 352 - Malone v. Fletcher · 49 So. 2d 460 - Zurich Fire Ins. Co. of New York v. Thomas
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"When such a left-hand turn is being made and an accident occurs, the burden rests heavily on the driver who is making the left-hand turn to explain how the accident occurred and to show that he was free from negligence." Codifer v. Occhipinti, La.App.1952, 57 So.2d 697, 699 .”
4 later decisions 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.