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← 157 Ind. App. 149 - Lewis v. State

157 Ind. App. 149 - Lewis v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1973

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
March 1983
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Ashton v. Anderson · Woods v. State · Dexter 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"In this case the prosecutor questioned the Appellant about the prior convictions of `malicious trespass' and `joy-riding' neither of which are within those crimes set out in Ashton v. Anderson for which the prior conviction of which may be used for impeachment purposes... .' "It would appear that our Supreme Court has been both specific and exclusive in regard to the crimes by which a witness may be impeached ... . None of the offenses by which the prosecutor elicited impeachment testimony are within the confines of any of those crimes above specified in Ashton v. Anderson and Dexter . " (emphasis supplied) 299 N.E.2d at 194 .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “It would appear that our Supreme Court has been both specific and exclusive in regard to the crimes by which a witness may be impeached ... . None of the offenses by which the prosecutor elicited impeachment testimony are within the confines of any of those crimes above specified in Ashton v. Anderson and Dexter .”
    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.