Collins v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1963
16 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 Goodwyn v. City of Shreveport · Wiltz v. City of New Orleans · Waggener v. Town of Point Pleasant · City of Covington v. Belser · 4 La. App. 503 - Barnes v. City of New Orleans
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is testimony in the record to the effect that a patrolman, whose beat adjoins the one in which the defective sidewalk was located, knew of the existence of the hole, and it is argued that the knowledge of this patrolman was notice to the City. In the first place, the officer referred to testified that the hole was not on his beat, and, in the next place, even if it be considered his duty to report it to the proper authorities, it was no part of the officer’s duty to repair the defective sidewalk. It is not shown that notice of the defective condition of the banquette ever reached any city official charged with the duty of making repairs to sidewalks. The mere fact that the patrolman testified that he knew of the condition of the pavement without proof, in fact in the face of a denial, that any communication to that effect had been made to the city authorities, will not be sufficient to establish notice of the condition of the pavement in the city so as to make them responsible for their failure to repair it.””
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.