Meadows v. Hickman’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently January 1992 · most notably 166 Ind. App. 632 - State v. Moles (1975), 155 Ind. App. 65 - Bill v. Bill (1972)
58 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 Bryant v. School Town of Oakland City · Reed, Admr. v. Brown · Miller v. Julian · Brown v. State · Roth v. Vandalia Railroad
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Another cogent reason for invoking this rule is that the time of the court should be devoted to cases that are properly briefed. Litigants who are making a good-faith effort to help the court should not be delayed while this court attempts to perform the duties of counsel.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"This rule was not declared in the interest of an appellant, but for the protection of the court, in order to relieve it of the burden of controverting the arguments and contentions advanced for reversal, which duty properly rests upon counsel for the appellee."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The rule herein announced is not for the benefit of the appellants but for the protection of the court and whether it shall be invoked is discretionary with the court. The rule will not be invoked unless the appellants' brief makes an apparent or prima facie showing of reversible error. (citing Pittsburg, etc., R. Co. v. Linder (1925), 195 Ind. 569 , 145 N.E. 885 ; Bryant v. School Town of Oakland City (1930), 202 Ind. 254 , 171 N.E. 378 , 173 N.E. 268 ; Reed, Admr. v. Brown (1939), 215 Ind. 417 , 19 N.E.2d 1015 ." (Our emphasis)”
2 later decisions 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.