Robertson v. Palmer’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 1978
14 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 Massett v. Keff · Miller v. Meche · Ponthieu v. Coco · 45 So. 2d 902 - Britt v. Merritt · Welch v. Van Valkenburgh
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well established, as the jurisprudence of this state, that a plaintiff cannot recover civil damages if it is shown that such plaintiff has been at fault in provoking the difficulty in which the injury is received. Where a plaintiff provokes a difficulty by insults, abuse, threats, or other conduct calculated to arouse resentment or fear on the part of the defendant, the plaintiff cannot recover although the defendant may not have been justified in law in his conduct. See Massett v. Keff, 116 La. 1107 , 41 So. 330 ; Miller v. Meche, 111 La. 143 , 35 So. 491 ; Welch v. Van Valkenburgh, La.App., 189 So. 297 ; Ponthieu v. Coco, La. App., 18 So.2d 351 ; McCurdy v. City Cab Co., La.App., 32 So.2d 720 ; Smith v. Clemmons, La.App., 48 So.2d 813 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“erroneous and contrary to the law and the evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.