135 Ind. App. 360 - Michel v. Forde’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2010
10 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 113 Ind. App. 65 - Pierce v. Clemens · Brazil Block Coal Co. v. Hoodlet · Hedgecock v. Orlosky · McDowell v. Duer · Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Hoffman
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . That a complaint must proceed on some definite theory, which must be adhered to throughout the trial, and upon appeal, is so thoroughly settled that the citation of authorities is unnecessary.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The relation of employer and employee is contractual. Like any other contractual relation, it is a product of a meeting of the minds. Western Union Tel. Co. v. Northcutt (1909), 158 Ala. 539 , 48 S. 553, 138 am. st. 38; 18 R. C. L. 490. To create the relation of employer and employee there must be an express contract, or such acts as will shoiv unequivocally that the parties recognize one another as master and servant. * * *” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The evidence given by the appellees in the trial of the case should sustain the cause of action and verdict upon the theory of the complaint, ...”,”
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.