584 So. 2d 362 - Sutton v. Duplessis’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Pickett v. RTS Helicopter (1997), 759 So. 2d 1203 - Summers v. St. Andrew's Episcopal School, Inc. (2000)
2 federal appellate · 22 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 Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund v. Presti · Kansas v. Colorado · Sinitiere v. Lavergne · 124 So. 2d 168 - Sumrall v. Aetna Casualty and Surety Company · Patterson v. Orleans Parish School Bd.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Negligence is actionable only where it is both a cause in fact and a legal cause of the injury. Legal cause requires a proximate relation between the actions of a defendant and that harm which occurs, and such relation must be substantial in character. Sinitiere v. Lavergne, 391 So.2d 821 (La.1980).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'any cause which, in natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient, intervening cause, produces the result complained of and without which the result would not have occurred.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“an accident results from two negligent acts, 'one more remote and one an intervening cause, the presence of the intervening cause prevents a finding of liability on the one responsible for the more remote cause.'”
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.