Gamble v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 200 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 218 later decisions — most recently July 2005 · most notably New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad v. Henderson (1957), Larkins v. Kohlmeyer (1951)
17 federal appellate · 200 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 110 Ind. App. 633 - Tabor v. Continental Baking Company · Baltimore Ohio R. Co. v. Reyher, Admx. · Martin v. Lilly · Jones v. Cary · Staser v. Hogan
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 218 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... If the facts are in dispute, or if reasonable men may draw different conclusions from undisputed facts, the question of negligence is one for the jury; but if the facts are not in dispute, or if the facts most favorable to the proponent, together with all reasonable and logical inference that may be drawn therefrom be assumed as true, and reasonable men could draw only one inference from such assumed facts and inferences, then the question of negligence becomes one of law for the court... ." 227 Ind. at 461 , 85 N.E.2d at 633 .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"On appeal, when the sufficiency of the evidence is questioned, we do not weigh the evidence, but we examine the record to see if there is any evidence, or any reasonable or logical inference which may be drawn from the evidence, which if believed by the jury would sustain the verdict. Butterfield v. Trittipo (1897), 67 Ind. 338, 342 ; Indiana Ins. Co. v. Handlon (1940), 216 Ind. 442 , 24 N.E.2d 1003 ."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““. . . We cannot permit litigants to gamble on the possibility of a favorable verdict, . . .””
5 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.