166 Ind. App. 370 - German v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2002
13 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 Blackburn v. State · Baker v. State · Gaddis v. State · McAfee v. State · Chatman 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[MJjotive is not an element of any of the degrees of homicide ... [but] absence of motive in a homicide case is a powerful cireumstance tending to exculpate a defendant when the State's proof is entirely by circumstantial evidence....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hadley v. State““Involuntary Manslaughter. Whoever kills any human being without malice, express or implied, involuntarily but in the commission of some unlawful act, is guilty of involuntary manslaughter . . . .””
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.