Embry v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 1997
4 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 Beaver v. Costin · 148 Ind. App. 75 - Stayton v. Funkhouser · Motter v. Snell · Commonwealth, Department of Highways v. Burchett
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the instant case, any inference of negligence was rebutted by evidence of an ordinary inspection of the yard prior to mowing which is all that is required of an ordinary prudent person, particularly where there is no evidence of rocks, debris or other unusual condition of the lawn that would make it dangerous. [ 511 S.W.2d 220 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cochran v. David
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.