120 Ind. App. 154 - Shown v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Baltimore Ohio R. Co. v. Reyher, Admx. · Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad v. Holcomb · Tietjen v. Dobson · Northwestern Transit, Inc. v. Wagner · 111 Ind. App. 523 - King v. Ransburg
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Contributory negligence is ordinarily a question of fact for the jury, and it is only where the controlling facts are not in dispute, and upon which facts reasonable men can reach but one conclusion, that such question becomes one of law for the court."”
2 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.