Harper v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably 145 Ind. App. 159 - Northern Indiana Public Service Co. v. Otis (1969), Palmer v. Decker (1970)
33 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 Shields v. State · Lincoln Operating Co. v. Gillis · 125 Ind. App. 176 - Koeneman v. Aldridge · Fowler v. Wallace · 125 Ind. App. 565 - Stull v. DAVIDSON
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘. . . It is an elementary principle of procedure that the court can not by contradictory instructions leave to the jury the duty of determining which of the two lines of instructions shall be followed, or what rule of law shall control the case. The law must come from the court, and be so declared that the jury can follow it without confusion.’ ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`to prove by a fair preponderance of all the evidence ... facts showing that the alleged misconduct of the defendant was the sole proximate cause of the ... damages ...'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“error in one instruction cannot be rendered harmless by the mere giving of other instructions that state the law correctly”
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.