Beeman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably DeVaney v. State (1972), Orkin Exterminating Co., Inc. v. Traina (1986)
3 federal appellate · 81 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 113 Ind. App. 65 - Pierce v. Clemens · Rogers v. Doody · Smith v. State · 102 Ind. App. 497 - Armstrong v. Binzer · State v. Beckman
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . [A] reckless disregard for the safety of others involves a conscious choice of a course of action which injures another, either with knowledge of the serious danger to others involved therein, or with knowledge of facts which would disclose the danger to any reasonable man. * * * * * * In other words, to be guilty of a reckless disregard for the safety of others, . [It] is sufficient that the actor realizes, or should realize, that there is a strong probability that such harm may result.””
9 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * “Reckless disregard of the rights of others, as used in the Indiana Guest Statute, means where the owner or operator of an automobile voluntarily does an improper or wrongful act, or with knowledge of existing conditions, voluntarily refrains from doing a proper and prudent act, under circumstances when (where) his action, or his failure to act, evinces an entire abandonment of any care, and a heedless indifference to results which may follow, and he recklessly takes the chance of an accident happening without intent that an accident may occur.” ’ ” 232 Ind. at 690 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Kidwell v. State · Boswell v. State““(a) Reckless Homicide. Any person who drives a vehicle with reckless disregard for the safety of others and thereby causes the death of another person shall be guilty of the offense of reckless homicide.” Burns’ § 47-2001 (a)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Kidwell v. State · Wasson v. State
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.