Chouest v. Remont’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 state decisions

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

1. “contributed to the creation of the emergency”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fontana v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins. Co. · Guidry v. Crowther

2. “"Whether or not the oncoming driver observing the other car executing an unusual maneuver in his path and on its wrong side of the highway has the last clear chance of avoiding the accident is normally a question of fact, depending on whether the oncoming driver did or should have observed that the other driver had created or was creating a dangerous situation; and whether after such time, the oncoming driver could have avoided the accident in question, but nevertheless failed to do so, Rottman v. Beverly, 183 La. 947 , 165 So. 153 ; Jackson v. Cook, 189 La. 860 , 181 So. 195 ; Russo v. Texas and Pacific Railroad Co., 189 La. 1042 , 181 So. 485 ; Cassar v. Mansfield Lumber Co., 215 La. 533 , 41 So.2d 209 ."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 102 So. 2d 532 - Bourgeois v. Fidelity & Casualty Co. of New York

3. “The really serious question at issue is whether, as the able and learned District Court found, * * * had the last clear chance to avoid the accident, even though the initial negligence of * * * actually produced the perilous situation which eventuated in this accident.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 102 So. 2d 532 - Bourgeois v. Fidelity & Casualty Co. of New York