Scheib v. Ledet’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Cook · Tarleton-Gaspard v. Malochee · 46 So. 2d 776 - Flowers v. Indemnity Ins. Co. of North America · Maher v. New Orleans Linen Supply Co. · 43 So. 2d 692 - Hirsch v. Kendrick
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * The right of way did not relieve Ledet of the necessity of exercising caution, and had he taken the trouble to look he would have seen the truck and could have taken such steps as were available to him for avoiding a collision. * * *"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"It is a presumption of law, juris et de jure, that a person saw a thing that he should have seen had he looked, and that his failure to see what was there to be seen constitutes negligence."”
2 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.