146 Ind. App. 237 - Ware v. Waterman’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably 173 Ind. App. 571 - Middelkamp v. Hanewich (1977), Vesolowski Ex Rel. Vesolowski v. Repay (1988)
3 federal appellate · 31 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 Harris v. Young Women's Christian Assn. of Terre Haute · Pennsylvania Co. v. Good · Evans v. Evans · Jackson v. Prairie Oil & Gas Co. · Abele v. A. L. Dougherty Overseas, Inc.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If, after the commencement of an action, the plaintiff fails therein, from any cause except negligence in the prosecution, or the action abate, or be defeated by the death of a party, or judgment be arrested or reversed on appeal, a new action may be brought within five [5] years after such determination, and be deemed a continuation of the first, for the purposes herein contemplated.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““. . . the plaintiff had made an effort ... by commencing an action within the limited time, but, owing to some error in the mode or form in bringing his suit, or in the proceedings, a proper judgment could not be rendered, and while he was prosecuting such an erroneous action the statute of limitations had run out. . . 253 N.E.2d, at 713 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““If any person entitled to bring, or liable to, any action, shall die before the expiration of the time limited for the action, the cause of action shall survive to or against his representatives, and may be brought at any time after the expiration of the time limited within eighteen [18] months after the death of such person.””
2 later decisions 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.