122 Ind. App. 66 - Howard v. Robinette’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2002
11 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 Baltimore v. Fifth Baptist Church · Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v. Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend Railway Co. · City of Huntington v. Northern Indiana Power Co. · Pritchett v. Board of Commissioners of the County of Knox · Department of Treasury v. City of Linton
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The courts of this state have clearly established the rule that where a municipality or public utility company operates a utility under legislative authority, and within the right thus given, and reasonably within the exercise thereof, and where the legislature contemplates the doing of the act which causes the injury, and when the municipality uses due care and caution regarding the rights of the neighboring owners, any inconvenience or incidental damage which may arise in the absence of any negligence from the reasonable use of said property will be regarded as within the rule of damnum absque injuria. 10”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In the construction of the power plant in question and the installation of the more powerful engine for needed extensions of the service pursuant to statutory authority and in furnishing electricity for public use, such as street lighting and public buildings, and water for fire protection and •for use in public buildings, the municipality was exercising a governmental function.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Howard v. Robinette“[Gjrants of legislative authority do not confer on municipalities the power to operate the facilities of a power plant in total disregard of the private rights of others!.]”) (emphasis added). . In its judgment, the trial court stated that”
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.