138 Ind. App. 438 - Gibson v. Ocker’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2009
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 Pokraka v. Lummus Co. · City of Indianapolis v. Kingsbury · Green v. Elliott · Brunt v. State ex rel. French · Hall v. Breyfogle
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The intention to which the courts give heed is not an intention hidden in the mind of the landowner, but an intention manifested by his acts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“There are two essential elements of a common-law dedication[:] (1) the intent of the owner to dedicate and (2) the acceptance by the public of the dedication.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A defective statutory dedication may operate as a common-law dedication, and a valid common-law dedication will prevail over an invalid statutory dedication.”
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.