173 Ind. App. 401 - Phillips v. Croy’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 1992 · most notably 177 Ind. App. 403 - Kroger Co. v. Haun (1978), Greycas, Inc. v. Proud (1987)
18 federal appellate · 21 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 United States v. Carroll Towing Co. · Union Traction Co. v. Berry · 151 Ind. App. 217 - Dudley Sports Co. v. Schmitt · Jones v. Cary · Toledo & Wabash Railway Co. v. Goddard
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e do not recognize degrees of negligence. There is only one standard: reasonable care under the circumstances. However, to be reasonable, the quantum of care exercised must be proportionate to the danger to be avoided and the fatal consequences involved in its neglect compared to the importance of the right the claimant is seeking to advance. Vivian Collieries Co. v. Cahall (1915), 184 Ind. 473 , 110 N.E. 672 ; Toledo & Wabash Ry. Co. v. Goddard (1865), 25 Ind. 185 ; Guion v. Terre Haute, I. & E.T. Co. (1924), 82 Ind.App. 458 , 143 N.E. 20 . See, also, Prosser, Law of Torts (4th Ed.), p. 419; and Learned Hand’s formulation in United States v. Carroll Towing Co. (C.A.2, 1947), 159 F.2d 169 . (Emphasis supplied.)”
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.