Johnson v. Lowrey’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"Whether or not this statutory provision was violated—it may be conceded it was—is of no consequence because Traylor under existing circumstances should have observed the tractor and avoided the accident, but did not because he was not maintaining a proper lookout. This factor constituted the efficient intervening cause of the accident and fixes the blame. That the light was white instead of red can only constitute a remote, not a contributory cause and is insufficient to relieve the defendant Traylor of answering for his negligence. See Masaracchia v. Inter-City Express Lines, Inc., La.App. 1935, 162 So. 221 ; Smith v. Monroe Grocer Co., Ltd., La.App.1938, 179 So. 495 ; Dowell Inc. v. Bayou State Oil Corp., La.App.1948, 33 So.2d 709 ; Portier v. Picou, La.App.1941, 3 So.2d 295 ." (Emphasis supplied.)”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 117 So. 2d 279 - Page v. Northern Insurance Company of New York · 126 So. 2d 726 - McDermit v. Northern Ins. Co.