111 Ind. App. 523 - King v. Ransburg’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2004 · most notably Gamble v. Lewis (1949), New York Central Railroad v. Milhiser (1952)
38 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 Industrial Commission v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance · Lindley v. Sink · Pfisterer v. Key · Citizens Telephone Co. v. Prickett · Inland Steel Co. v. Gillespie
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 to be remembered that attorneys are officers of the court wherein they are engaged in representing their clients and their conduct is at all times subject to the supervision of that court. The judge of that court sits in the presence of the happenings there. He observes what occurs and its effect upon the jurors. Courts of review do not have such advantage. Isolated scenes tend to take on an importance entirely out of proportion to their place in the whole drama when first seen by a stranger, recorded in the cold print of the review record away from the warm atmosphere of the trial arena. So we have the sound rule that the decision of the trial court on matters of alleged misconduct of counsel will not be disturbed unless it appears that the trial court has abused its discretion and the complaining party has been harmed thereby. Meeker, Guardian v. Decker (1938), 104 Ind. App. 594 , 10 N. E. (2d) 416; Richmond Insurance Co. v. Boetticher (1938), 105 Ind. App. 558 , 12 N. E. (2d) 1005; Jay v. Holman (1939), 106 Ind. App. 413 , 20 N. E. (2d) 656; Pennsylvania Ice & Coal Co. v. Elischer (1939), 106 Ind. App. 613 , 21 N. E. (2d) 436.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““While it is perfectly proper for a party to have one of its insurer’s claim agents so assist counsel, nevertheless, when one not of counsel and a stranger to the record actively participates in conduct of the litigation in such manner, opposing counsel is justified in discovering from prospective jurors whether they are acquainted with him. The extent of the inquiry must of course be limited by the necessity of the situation so created, . . . (our emphasis)”
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.