178 Ind. App. 206 - McCormick v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Daniel v. State (1991), Simms v. State (1981)
27 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 Cook v. State · Stout v. State · 154 Ind. App. 482 - Moore v. State · Bryant v. State · Link 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Courts are not bound to adopt a construction that would lead to such manifest absurdity in order that the strict letter of the statute may be adhered to. They will rather look to the intention of the legislature, as gathered from the import of the whole act, and will carry out such intention as thus obtained. As said by an Indiana law writer: ‘Though penal laws are to receive a strict construction, they are not to be construed so strictly as to defeat the obvious or expressed intent of the legislature.’ Gillett, Crim.Law § 20.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Simms v. State“an automobile for transporting heavy loads”
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.