640 So. 2d 694 - Bernard v. STATE, THROUGH DOTD’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2010
7 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 372 So. 2d 1197 - Rue v. State, Dept. of Highways · Gaspard v. Transworld Drilling Co. · 468 So. 2d 675 - Richardson v. Continental Ins. Co. · Acadian Metropolitan Code Authority v. Miller · 464 So. 2d 357 - Quinn v. State, Through Dept. of Highways
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“With respect to tort claims brought by third parties it [the immunity] is available only absent a showing either that the situation created was not hazardous or that the contractor had no justifiable reason to believe a hazardous condition was created.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“La.R.S. 9:2771 does not require the contractor to prove fault or insufficiency of plans and specifications, but, rather, immunity results from proof of compliance alone. City of Covington v. Heard, 428 So.2d 1132 (La.App. 1st Cir.1983).”
1 later decision 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.