McFarlin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 71 Ind. App. 249 - Adams v. Schneider · Jones v. City of Logansport · Perry v. Northern Indiana Public Service Co. · City of Hammond v. Cataldi · Harris v. Kettelhut Construction, 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A governmental entity or an employee acting within the seope of his employment is not liable if a loss results from: * LJ * * # # (7) the adoption and enforcement of or failure to adopt or enforce a law (including rules and regulations), unless the act of enforcement constitutes false arrest or false imprisonment...."”
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.