161 Ind. App. 217 - Pierce v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘To conclude from the sparse facts in this record that appellant had guilty knowledge would be to conclude guilt where only a possibility of guilt was proved’. . “ ‘The circumstantial evidence merely raises a suspicion that defendant knew the car was stolen. “It is not sufficient that the evidence merely tends to support . the material facts in issue . or that it establishes suspicion of guilty.” ’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Anderson v. State

2. ““Any such inference, however, must be a logical deduction flowing directly from the circumstantial evidence which initiated the inference. Pierce v. State (1974), 161 Ind. App. 217 , 315 N.E.2d 376 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Monroe v. State