Eaglen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably Mitchell v. State (2000), 172 Ind. App. 397 - Hunter v. State (1977)
30 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 Peru Cemetery Co. v. Mount Hope Cemetery
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[Nleglect is the want of reasonable care-that is, the omission of such steps as a reasonable parent would take, such as are usually taken in the ordinary experience of mankind....'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Sample v. State · Lay v. State““Nor does it avail appellant to contend that he did not know, or could not tell, that Nolan was sick. The most cursory examination by an experienced parent would have revealed the sickly condition of the child; and if appellant failed to observe the obvious, it could only have resulted from his own negligence. “In the 1914 English case of Oakey v. Jackson (1914), 1 KB (Eng.) 216, 6 BRC 460, Anno.Cas. 1916A 335, the King’s Bench Division, in construing the meaning of the word ‘neglect in a statute similar in import to § 10-813, supra, stated that: ‘Neglect is the want of reasonable care-that is, the omission of such steps as a reasonable parent would take, such as are usually taken in the ordinary experience of mankind . . .’ “This language is equally applicable to this State’s statutory definition of child neglect. Therefore, conceding, without deciding, that appellant had no actual knowledge that his child was extremely ill, since he could easily have become aware of that fact had he exercised his statutory duty, such a contention provides appellant no defense.” 231 N.E.2d 147, at 150 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Worthington v. State““(a) wilfully failing to provide proper and sufficient food, clothing, maintenance, regular school education as required by law, medical attention or surgical treatment, and a clean and proper home, or (b) failure to do or permit to be done any act necessary for the child’s physical or moral well-being: . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith 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.