Padgett v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 1970 · most notably Walker v. State (1894), Williams v. State (1907)
25 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 Long v. State · Greer v. State · Clare v. State · Cox v. State · Murphy v. State
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The state is not expected and cannot be required, to make proof of felonious intent, as a fact, by direct and positive evidence; for, as a general rule, men who do or commit acts which the law denounces as public offenses do not proclaim in public places the intent with which such acts are done. If the state were required to make direct and positive proof of the felonious intent which characterizes the act done as a public offense, the result would be that many persons charged and guilty of public crimes would go acquitted, ‘unwhipt of justice.’ Therefore, all that the state is required to do in such cases is to introduce such evidence on the trial of the cause as will satisfy the triers of the facts, whether court or jury, beyond a reasonable doubt, not only that the act was done by the defendant, but that it was done with the felonious intent charged in the indictment. Padgett v. State, 103 Ind. 550 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Borgstrom
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.