126 Ind. App. 353 - WALKER v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably 140 Ind. App. 62 - Stover v. Fechtman (1966), Great Atlantic & Pac. Tea Co., Inc. v. Wilson (1980)
3 federal appellate · 29 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 Hayes v. Richfield Oil Corp. · Barrett v. Lake Ontario Beach Improvement Co. · 96 Ind. App. 535 - Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Gillespie · Purcell v. English · City of Muncie v. Hey
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where premises are leased for public or semi-public purposes, and at time of lease conditions exist which render premises unsafe for purposes intended, or constitute a nuisance, and landlord knows or by exercise of reasonable care ought to know of conditions, and a third person suffers injury on account thereof, landlord is liable, because third person is there at invitation of landlord, as well as of tenant. (Citation omitted.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“ilt is, of course, the general and elementary rule that liability in tort is an incident to occupation and control, or, as otherwise stated, that possession and control determine the liability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morehead v. Deitrich
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.