State v. Ensley’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 1967 · most notably Ellingham v. Dye (1912), Boos v. State (1914)
48 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 State Board of Tax Commissioners v. Holliday · Indianapolis Union Railway Co. v. Waddington · Board of Commissioners v. Conner · Strange v. Board of Commissioners · Cox v. Delmas
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No greater certainty is required in criminal, than in civil, pleadings. Both must be certain to a common intent. McCool v. State (1864), 23 Ind. 127 ; Gillett, Crim. Law § 125. The law does not require technical niceties in the averments of an indictment. The charge should-be sufficiently certain, that the court and the jury may know what they are to try, and to inform the defendant of the character of the proof which would be brought against him, and to bar another prosecution for the same offense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kops 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.