102 Ind. App. 497 - Armstrong v. Binzer’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably 113 Ind. App. 65 - Pierce v. Clemens (1943), Beeman v. State (1953)
37 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 City of South Bend v. Turner · Penso v. McCormick · Indiana Railway Co. v. Maurer · 96 Ind. App. 287 - Coconower v. Stoddard · Jeffersonville Manufacturing Co. v. Holden
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘. . . It is proper, therefore, for the court to define the term “reckless disregard of the rights of others.” “ ‘Reckless disregard of the rights of others, as used in the Indiana Guest Statute, means where the owner or operator of an automobile voluntarily does an improper or wrongful act, or with knowledge of existing conditions, voluntarily refrains from doing a proper and prudent act, under circumstances when his action, or his failure to act, evinces an entire abandonment of any care, and a heedless indifference to results which may follow, and he recklessly takes the chance of an accident happening without intent that an accident may occur.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Beckman““The statute does not attempt to define the meaning of the phrase ‘reckless disregard of the rights of others,’ but does, by such phrase, fix a standard of conduct which, if not observed, will result in liability for damages sustained, without, however, undertaking to apply that standard to any, given state of facts, thus leaving the question as to what constitutes a reckless disregard of the rights of others open for determination as a question of fact when the evidence is conflicting, or when different inferences from the evidence may be reasonably drawn.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Beckman““should receive no impressions of this cause from any other source whatsoever, except from the evidence as testified by the witnesses on the witness stand, and produced in the trial of the cause, and the law of this case as given you by the court in these instructions.” (Our italics.)”
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.