159 Ind. App. 456 - Roberts v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably McGill v. Duckworth (1991), 167 Ind. App. 96 - Board of Com'rs of Delaware County v. Briggs (1975)
56 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 Conley v. Gibson · Campbell v. State · American Party of Texas v. Bullock · 141 Ind. App. 662 - Brinkman v. City of Indianapolis · 149 Ind. App. 387 - Simpson's Food Fair, Inc. v. City of Evansville
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] public official, charged with the custody and care of a prisoner, owes a private duty to the prisoner to take reasonable precautions under the circumstances to preserve his life, health, and safetya duty which is in addition to the duty of safekeeping owed to the public generally.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Indiana courts have long recognized that public employees or officers will be individually liable if, in performing their duties, they act with 'corrupt motives' or evil design.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, with every intendment regarded in his favor... .”
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.