141 Ind. App. 176 - Summers v. Weyer’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2008 · most notably Jackson v. Warrum (1989), Old Town Development Company v. Langford (1976)
5 federal appellate · 24 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 Keeshin Motor Express Co. v. Glassman · Wylie v. Meyers · 140 Ind. App. 264 - New York Central Railroad Co. v. Knoll · De Haven v. Helvie · 119 Ind. App. 393 - Bodine v. Justice
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The giving of an insuruction on an issue not supported by the evidence is erroneous; and, Tt is fundamental that instructions to the jury must follow the evidence, and be limited to an exposition of the legal effect upon the issues on trial of the relevant facts before the jury for determination.’ ” [Court citing New York Central Railroad Company v. Knoll (1965), 140 Ind. App. 264 , 204 N. E. 2d 220, 222 , and cases cited therein.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““There are no allegations in appellee’s complaint of any statutory violations on the part of appellant, nor does the record disclose that any evidence was adduced at trial from which an inference of a statutory violation could be indulged.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Where specific acts of negligence are alleged in the complaint, it is well settled that the plaintiff must recover, if at all, upon proof of these acts.””
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.