Cole v. Searfoss’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 1998 · most notably 115 Ind. App. 383 - Indianapolis Railways, Inc. v. Williams (1945), 147 Ind. App. 142 - Rouch v. Bisig (1970)
27 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 Indianapolis Traction & Terminal Co v. Croly · Nickey v. Steuder · Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis Railroad v. Butler · Indianapolis Street Railway Co. v. Marschke · Ohio & Mississippi Railroad v. Tindall
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.
““Where a child is sui juris it is held to be capable of exercising some care and discretion, but it is not necessarily held to the same degree of care required of a person of mature years. The care which the law exacts of such a child is only such as it was capable of exercising in view of its age, knowledge and experience, and it is guilty of negligence only when it fails to exercise the care so exacted. In most cases the amount of care required of such a child is a question of fact for the jury. Indianapolis, etc., R. Co. v. Wilson (1893), 134 Ind. 95 ; Keller v. Gashill (1894), 9 Ind. App. 670 ; Louisville, etc., R. Co. v. Sears (1894), 11 Ind. App. 654 .””
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.