Gerking v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 1984 · most notably 145 Ind. App. 159 - Northern Indiana Public Service Co. v. Otis (1969), Hayes Freight Lines, Inc. v. Wilson (1948)
26 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 Citizens Telephone Co. v. Prickett · Perry, Matthews-Buskirk Stone Co. v. Wilson · Soucie v. State · Headlee v. State · Nelson v. Welch
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An appellate court is too far distant from the scene to gauge the effect of pettifogging remarks of trial attorneys and must repose some confidence in the trial judge’s determination that what was said outside the record was rendered harmless by his admonition to the jury.””
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.