Gerlot v. Swartz’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2007 · most notably Northern Indiana Transit, Inc. v. Burk (1950), Caldwell v. Tremper (1962)
10 federal appellate · 23 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 Barbier v. Connolly · Minneapolis St Ry Co v. Beckwith · Prest-O-Lite Co. v. Skeel · Bedford Quarries Co. v. Bough · City of Delphi v. Lowery
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While § 47-526, Burns’ Ind. St. 1933, is mandatory, and places a positive duty upon the operator of all motor vehicles coming within its provisions to place flares as therein stated, yet it is clear the statute also contemplates that the operator shall be given a reasonable time to comply with its provisions. But § 47-504 Burns’ St. 1933, Acts 1925, Ch. 213, § 28, p. 570, fixes a standard of duty upon operators of motor vehicles as to tail lights and a violation of this statute is negligence per se.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davison v. Williams
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.