Welty v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 1975
11 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 Bain Jr · Willis v. Bayles · Gillespie v. Rump · People v. . Johnson · State v. Stebbins
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this state [Indiana] we have a statute which authorized the court to order the correction of the indictment, and a Constitution which provides (Section 17, Article VII) that the General Assembly may modify or abolish the grand jury system. Statutes authorizing the amendment of indictments have been sustained in a number of states.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Moyer
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.