Deckard v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably 156 Ind. App. 233 - Coffey v. Wininger (1973), Dill v. State (2001)
3 federal appellate · 37 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 Miller, Etc. v. Ortman, Etc. · Shields v. State · Indianapolis Traction & Terminal Co. v. Henby · 125 Ind. App. 176 - Koeneman v. Aldridge · Fowler v. Wallace
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]his court has repeatedly enunciated the rule that the error of a bad instruction is not cured by the giving of correct instructions on the same subject. Such instructions are not viewed as a whole, with this court on appeal left to determine which of the contradictory instructions the jury should reasonably have believed."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`the burden is upon Carmen Deckard [the plaintiff] to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that ... one or more of ... [the defendant's] negligent acts was the sole proximate and direct cause of injuries to plaintiff....'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“erroneously cast upon the plaintiff the burden of proving ... that the plaintiff was free from contributory negligence.”
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.