147 Ind. App. 142 - Rouch v. Bisig’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 1998 · most notably 177 Ind. App. 403 - Kroger Co. v. Haun (1978), 176 Ind. App. 437 - Meadowlark Farms, Inc. v. Warken (1978)
29 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 · Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Means · Lincoln Operating Co. v. Gillis · Indiana, Bloomington & Western Railway Co. v. Barnhart · 71 Ind. App. 249 - Adams v. Schneider
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... Strictly speaking `assumed risk' is a separate affirmative defense upon contract while incurred risk is a species of contributory negligence in Indiana. .. ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“... If the facts are in dispute, or if reasonable men may draw different conclusions from undisputed facts, the question of negligence is one for the jury; but if the facts are not in dispute, or if the facts most favorable to the proponent, together with all reasonable and logical inference that may be drawn therefrom be assumed as true, and reasonable men could draw only one inference from such assumed facts and inferences, then the question of negligence becomes one of law for the court... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Diving from their pier was dangerous. However, the fact that such act was dangerous does not as a matter of law legally result in the conclusion that such act was negligent. Cheek v. Jordan, 131 Ind. App. 127 , 169 N.E.2d 608 (1960)." 147 Ind. App. at 151, 152 , 258 N.E.2d at 888 .”
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.