636 So. 2d 608 - Simpson v. State Through DOTD’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2013
17 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 341 So. 2d 332 - Coco v. Winston Industries, Inc. · 373 So. 2d 498 - Reck v. Stevens · 623 So. 2d 1257 - Youn v. Maritime Overseas Corp. · Gaspard v. LeMaire · 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Likewise ... DOTD attempts to define causation solely by plaintiff's action, without consideration of the simultaneous causation resulting from defendant's inaction. DOTD seeks to achieve the same result that would be reached if contributory negligence were still a bar to recovery of damages under Louisiana law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“cause of action for loss of consortium does not include a claim for mental anguish suffered as a result of the physical injury to the other person. Sharp v. Metropolitan Property & Liability Ins. Co., 478 So.2d 724 (La.App. 3d Cir.1985).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“defendant’s duty is not to be defined in terms of the plaintiff’s conduct[J” See also Molbert v. Toepfer, 550 So.2d 183, 186 (La.1989) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor-Rice v. State
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.