Wilson v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

29 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “as to entitle the plaintiffs' driver to enter the superior thoroughfare, since she was entitled to assume had she observed him at this distance that he was not proceeding at such an excessive speed as to arrive at the intersection much sooner than she would have reasonably anticipated based upon his approaching at the legal rate, Duke v. Malone, La.App. 1 Cir., 57 So.2d 711 ; Gauthier v. Fogleman, La.App. 1 Cir., 50 So.2d 321 . Furthermore, her failure to see the oncoming traffic would not be a proximate cause of any accident, because even if she had seen it, under the circumstances she was entitled to proceed into the intersection, Duke v. Malone, La.App. 1 Cir., 57 So.2d 711 ; Boullion v. Bonin, La.App. 1 Cir., 2 So.2d 535 ,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Baranco v. Cotten

2. ““Pre-emption of an intersection, under the principles established by our jurisprudence, does not mean the prior entry of a vehicle simply by a matter of a few feet, or, in relation to the time element, by a fraction of a second ahead of another vehicle, but, in order to support a charge of negligence, such pre-emption must be construed to mean an entry into an intersection with the opportunity of clearing the same without obstruction of the path of another vehicle under normal and reasonable circumstances and conditions. Where the intersection involves the passage across a favored thoroughfare, an obligation of unusual care and caution upon the driver of vehicles on the less favored thoroughfare should be enforced.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Walker v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance