151 Ind. App. 312 - Brooks v. Bloom’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2012
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 Bushnell v. Bushnell · CLOUSE, ETC. v. Peden · 96 Ind. App. 287 - Coconower v. Stoddard · 147 Ind. App. 33 - Mazza v. Kelly · Barrell v. Wessel
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there must be a showing that the [driver] has manifestly disregarded the warnings of impending sleep to such a degree that his conduct typifies either intentional injury or a conscious defiance of the probable result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clancy v. State“The act of falling asleep at the wheel of an automobile, standing alone, is generally held to permit, at most, an inference of negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clancy v. State“one ordinarily does not fall asleep without some premonitory symptoms or signals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clancy v. State
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.