175 Ind. App. 285 - Pepka Spring Co. v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2004
8 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 Cole v. Sheehan Construction Company · In re Loper · 151 Ind. App. 190 - Lincoln v. Whirlpool Corporation · 146 Ind. App. 70 - Block v. Fruehauf · 167 Ind. App. 669 - DeMichaeli & Associates v. Sanders
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a matter of common knowledge to employers of labor that men working together, or in near proximity to other workers, will indulge in moments of diversion from work to play pranks on each other ... the risk from accident is thereby, to some extent at least, necessarily increased, and this increased risk is a risk of the employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weldy v. Kline
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.