153 Ind. App. 524 - Trinkle v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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26 state decisions

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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"... it is within the sound discretion of the trial court to permit a witness to testify during rebuttal regarding a matter which is not in rebuttal but is related to the State’s case in chief, and the irregularity in so doing will not be treated as reversible error unless the defendant was prevented from presenting rebuttal evidence thereto. Griffith v. State (1959), 239 Ind. 321 , 157 N.E.2d 191 ; Hollowell v. State (1971), 256 Ind. 467 , 269 N.E.2d 755 . * * *””

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wash v. State · 177 Ind. App. 696 - Raymer v. State

2. ““It is a well established rule that the granting of a motion for continuance not based on statutory grounds, as is the case here, is within the sound discretion of the trial court and that petitions for a continuance are not to be favored and will only be granted in the furtherance of justice on a showing of proper grounds. Miller v. State (1971), [256] Ind. [296], 268 N.E.2d 299 ; Carlin v. State (1970), 254 Ind. 332 , 259 N.E.2d 870 ; Calvert v. State (1968), 251 Ind. 119 , 239 N.E.2d 697 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 159 Ind. App. 446 - Dossett v. State