101 Ind. App. 369 - Medsker v. Etchison’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 1980
10 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 71 Ind. App. 249 - Adams v. Schneider · Consolidated School District No. 1 v. Wright · 90 Ind. App. 462 - Sherman v. Miller Construction Co. · Smith v. State ex rel. Ingerman · State ex rel. Walburn v. Gough
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Generally speaking, school officers acting within the scope of their duty are only responsible individually for the injuries resulting from corrupt motives and not from mistake of law or judgment. . . . “The school board as a unit and not as individuals accepted the report of the superintendent. They had delegated generally to this man the conduct of the schools. ... In the absence of a showing that they directed his specific act or personally cooperated therein they cannot be held personally liable. . . . “. . . We do not say by this that even if these things had been done that there could be a recovery here, but we do say that these facts and possibly others must be present before they could be guilty of negligence. Even though they should be guilty of negligence, whether or not the law provides a remedy is still another question and not before us here. . . . “The board here was not acting as individuals but as an official body and for their acts as such there is no liability or at least there is no remedy provided by law whereby it may be enforced. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Here the school board in the exercise of its judgment caused this slide to be erected. Exercising its judgment, it accepted the report of the superintendent of the schools to the effect that the slide had been properly installed. There is no charge that his judgment or that of the board was influenced by improper motives, or that it was not their best judgment.””
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.