95 Ind. App. 663 - Lee v. Layton’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 1976
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 Currie v. Consolidated Railway Co. · Welty v. Indianapolis & Vincennes Railroad · Bradley v. Ashworth · Gibson v. Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad · New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad v. New Jersey Electric Railway 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . the weight of authority in the later cases ■ is decidedly in favor of the rule that the contributory negligence of the bailee is not imputable to the bailor so as to preclude his recovery of damages from a third person for negligently injuring the bailor’s property. ... It was not necessary to prove that the wife was free from fault . . ..””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.