159 Ind. App. 627 - Farno v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently June 2000 · most notably Lisenko v. State (1976), State v. Wilkins (2000)
61 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 McAfee v. State · Smith v. State · Tait v. State · Spivey v. State · Luther 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Because such ‘intent’ is a mental state of the actor, the trier of fact must resort to reasonable inferences based upon examination of the surrounding circumstances to reasonably infer its existence. . . . (Cases cited omitted.) “If the circumstantial evidence bearing upon this element could reasonably lead to either of two inferences, one of guilt and one of innocence, an appellate tribunal is not free to reweigh the evidence and determine which should have predominated in the mind of the trier of fact. . . . (Cases cited omitted.)” See also, Christian v. State (1975), 163 Ind. App. 237 , 323 N.E.2d 253, 254 ; DeFries v. State (1974), 162 Ind. App. 531 , 319 N.E.2d 837, 840 ; Majors v. State (1974), 160 Ind. App. 124 , 310 N.E.2d 283, 285 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. O'GRADY v. State · Cox v. State
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.