152 Ind. App. 299 - Hatcher v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 1995
22 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 Turner v. State · 121 Ind. App. 302 - State Board of Tax Commissioners v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad · City of Indianapolis v. SCHMID · 151 Ind. App. 388 - Wm. J. & M. S. Vesey, Inc. v. Hillman · Ross v. Review Board of Indiana Employment Security Division
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Arbitrary or capricious action on the part of an administrative board means willful and unreasonable action, without consideration and in disregard of the facts or circumstances of the case; action taken without some basis which would lead a reasonable and honest man to such action."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“an absolute relinquishment; a total desertion... Intention is the first and paramount object of the inquiry.”
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.