178 Ind. App. 124 - Hitlaw v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2012
17 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 North Carolina v. Alford · Stowers v. State · Harshman v. State · Boles v. State · Tyler v. Campbell
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was required to establish a factual basis for a guilty plea to the crime proscribed by I.C. 9-4-18-14. We decline to follow the rule created by this decision. Indiana Code 35-85-1-8(b) provides that the court shall not enter judgment upon a plea of guilty”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Melton v. State“unless it is satisfied from its examination of the defendant or the evidence presented that there is a factual basis for the plea.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Melton 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.