117 Ind. App. 504 - Becker v. Strater’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably CLOUSE, ETC. v. Peden (1962), Brown v. Saucerman (1957)
3 federal appellate · 47 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 Bedwell v. Debolt · Hoesel v. Cain Kahler v. Cain · 114 Ind. App. 688 - Lee Brothers v. Jones · 113 Ind. App. 367 - Swinney v. Roler
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'There was nothing about appellee's conduct suggesting reckless abandon. He did not rush into the intersection knowing that other cars were approaching. All the evidence is to the effect that he had no knowledge of the approach of the automobile which struck him. He was not warned either by others or by his own senses.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“Willful or wanton misconduct consists of the conscious and intentional doing of a wrongful act or omission of a duty, with reckless indifference to consequences, under circumstances which show that the doer has knowledge of existing conditions and that injury will probably result.”
8 later decisions 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.