141 Ind. App. 628 - Bixenman v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 1980
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Whitaker, Admr. v. Borntrager · 139 Ind. App. 118 - STALLINGS v. Dick · Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Co. v. Stevenson · Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Miles · REYNOLDS, ADMTRX. ETC. v. Langford
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.
“If you find from a preponderance of the evidence that at the time of his death Dean E. Bixenman was a child 13 years of age, you are instructed that he was bound only to exercise such care for his own safety as would ordinarily be exercised by children of like age, knowledge, judgment and experience under the facts, circumstances and conditions disclosed by all of the evidence herein.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bixenman v. Hall“The last clear chance contemplates a known peril which can be avoided by due care, not a peril which might have been known by the exercise of due care. In other words, it is the negligent failure to avoid a discovered peril that makes [the doctrine] applicable... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cartwright v. Harris
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.