166 Ind. App. 199 - Merry v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Bell v. State (1977), Smith v. State (1982)
80 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 Kirby v. Illinois · Coleman v. Alabama · Luckett v. State · Lawrence v. State · Birkla 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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“on or about the fifth day of December, 1970 to on or about the fifth day of September, 1978.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Andrews v. State · Jones v. State“"The extent of voir dire examination of the jurors may be restricted by the trial court to testing the capacity and the competency of prospective jurors. Garrett v. State (1973), 157 Ind. App. 426 , 300 N.E.2d 696 . In this respect, the trial court must be mindful that jurors are to be examined to eliminate bias, not to condition them to be receptive to the particular questioner's position. Robinson v. State (1973) 260 Ind. 517 , 297 N.E.2d 409 ." Merry v. State, (1975) 166 Ind. App. 199, 214 , 335 N.E.2d 249, 258 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Staton v. State““(a) The indictment or information shall be in writing and allege the commission of a crime by: * * * (3) Citing the statutory provision alleged to have been violated except that any failure to include such a citation or any error in such a citation shall not constitute grounds for reversal of a conviction where the defendant was not otherwise misled as to the nature of the charges against him.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ross 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.