Conrad v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2003 · most notably Leach v. State (1912), Sievers v. Peters Box & Lumber Co. (1898)
32 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 Epps v. State · Shular v. State · Masterson v. State · Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co. v. McCartney · City of Indianapolis v. Scott
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nothing has changed in our system of jurisprudence to alter ... the reasoning of the Indiana Supreme Court, over one hundred years ago in Conrad v. State: *... Evidence should not be acted upon, which all the jury had not originally an opportunity of acquiring in the legitimate way, which is prescribed and sanctioned by the rules of law and which should be in the presence of the parties or their professional agents."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Naumoski v. Bernacet
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.