Stapinski v. Walsh Const. Co., Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably Owens Corning Fiberglass Corp. v. Cobb (2001), Thiele v. Faygo Beverage, Inc. (1986)
29 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 Ikerd v. Lapworth · 145 Ind. App. 324 - Verplank v. Commercial Bank · 176 Ind. App. 299 - Hayes v. Second Nat. Bank of Richmond · 169 Ind. App. 345 - Union State Bank v. Williams · Stapinski v. WALSH CONST. 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Defendant] had no representative present at [plaintiff's employer's pre-sale} inspections [of the truck] and expressly disclaimed any warranty of condition, completing the sale 'as is”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We neither accept nor reject, as a general proposition, the adoption, as the law of Indiana, the Restatement (Second) of Torts § 388 (1965) by the Court of Appeals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rogers v. Grunden
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.