605 So. 2d 1032 - Roberts v. Benoit’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 260 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 294 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably 744 So. 2d 606 - Hardy v. Bowie (1999), 646 So. 2d 318 - Mathieu v. Imperial Toy Corp. (1994)
11 federal appellate · 260 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 549 So. 2d 840 - Rosell v. Esco · Arceneaux v. Domingue · Canter v. Koehring Company · Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co. · Dixie Drive It Yourself System New Orleans Co. v. American Beverage 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 294 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“How easily does one associate the plaintiff's complained-of harm with the defendant's conduct? ... Although ease of association encompasses the idea of foreseeability, it is not based on foreseeability alone.”
81 later decisions quote this exact passage“1) Was the conduct in question a cause-in-fact of the resulting harm? 2) Did the defendant owe a duty to the plaintiff? 3) Was the duty breached? 4) Were the risk and the harm caused within the scope of protection afforded by the duty breached?”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage“[e]very act whatever of man that causes damage to another obliges him by whose fault it happened to repair it.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doe v. McKesson · Doe v. McKesson
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.