142 Ind. App. 655 - Witherspoon v. Salm’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 1986 · most notably Gutierrez v. Collins (1979), Bowen v. United States (1978)
6 federal appellate · 14 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 Babcock v. Jackson · Griffith v. United Air Lines, Inc. · Clark v. Clark · 26 Wis. 2d 617 - Wilcox v. Wilcox · W. H. Barber Co. v. Hughes
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 court will consider all acts of the parties touching the transaction in relation to the several states involved and will apply as the law governing the transaction the law of that “state with which the facts are in most intimate contact." Witherspoon v. Salm (1968), 142 Ind.App. 655 , 237 N.E.2d 116, 123 , quoting W.H. Barber Co. v. Hughes (1945), 223 Ind. 570 , 63 N.E.2d 417, 423 .”
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.