Walker v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2019
10 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 Havert v. Caldwell · 125 Ind. App. 76 - Slinkard v. Babb, Wilson · 142 Ind. App. 223 - Schroer, Gdn. v. Funk & Sons, Inc. · Crull v. Platt · Peck v. Ford Motor Co.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The appellees have cited no case holding that the existence of some attraction or event, either deliberately or negligently created along the side of the road, which diverts the attention of an operator of a motor vehicle, is either negligence or proximate causation rendering the creator of the attraction liable. Indeed, the highways abound in such bizarre creations carefully designed to draw the attention of motorists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“defendant's negligence merely creates a condition by which the subsequent injury producing acts of another are made possible, the existence of the first condition cannot be the proximate cause of the injuries, but is a remote cause.”
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.