Pier v. SCHULTZ’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2008 · most notably 169 Ind. App. 80 - Swanson v. Shroat (1976), 149 Ind. App. 365 - Fort Wayne National Bank v. Doctor (1971)
39 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 Neal, Admr. v. Home Builders, Inc. · Woodruff v. Bowen · Indianapolis Water Co. v. Harold · Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Co. v. Scott · 124 Ind. App. 257 - Lockridge v. Standard Oil Co., Inc.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... not alleged [the owners] committed any positive act or exercised any positive control over the instrumentality." 243 Ind. 200, 204 , 182 N.E.2d 255, 257 .”
4 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.