133 Ind. App. 542 - LEE, ETC. v. Dickerson’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 1992
21 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 Brunker v. Cummins · Pruett v. Burr · Derrick v. Blazers · 6 Ill. App. 2d 229 - Stone v. Warehouse & Terminal Cartage Co. · Hadley v. Ross
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It has repeatedly been held by the courts (throughout this nation) that statements contained in a report compiled by a police officer concerning the cause of or responsibility for an injury to the person or property are properly excluded from evidence on the basis that it constitutes an opinion or conclusion as distinguished from a statement of fact and/or that it represents statements made by someone else which were given to the investigating officer rather than the reporting officer's own personal observations. See cases cited in the annotations following the case of Derrick v. Blazers (1959), 355 Mich. 176 , 93 N.W.2d 909 , reported in 69 A.L.R.2d 1143 ; as well as Franklin v. Skelly Oil Co. (1944), reported in 153 A.L.R. 156 ; see, also, 20 Am. Jur., Evidence, § 1027, pp. 866-867. While the facts set out in such reports are good evidence, the conclusions and opinions stated therein are not. See authorities last cited.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The questions asked clearly invaded the province of the court and jury. It is the duty of the trial court and not the witness to advise the jury as to who should have yielded the right of way in the instant case. It is also a function of the court to instruct the jury as to the duty of the parties involved in the accident in question. It is the duty of the jury to take the evidence presented, apply the law, and determine whether or not there was any improper driving on appellee’s part and whether appellant should recover damages.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““. . . where the facts can be fully placed before the jury, opinion evidence, even from experts, is incompetent if the facts are of such a nature that jurors are as well qualified to form an opinion upon them as witness.” Brunker v. Cummins (1892), 133 Ind. 443, 447 , 32 N. E. 732 .”
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.