Hefton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 1998
2 federal appellate · 20 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 Livingston v. Livingston · Vesey v. Day · Wabash Railway Co. v. City of Gary · Burnside v. Ennis · Knight 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has long been recognized that courts have full and complete control of the record of their proceedings during the entire term at which such proceeding was had; and that during such term, the court may, for good cause, correct, modify, or vacate any of its judgments. McClellan v. Binkley (1881), 78 Ind. 503 ; Burside v. Ennis (1873), 43 Ind. 411 ; Stout v. Duncan (1882), 87 Ind. 383 ; Livingston v. Livingston (1921), 190 Ind. 223 , 130 N. E. 122 ; Wabash v. Gary (1921), 191 Ind. 394 , 132 N. E. 737 ; Vesey v. Day (1911), 175 Ind. 406, 411 , 94 N. E. 481 ; Freeman, Judgments, Section 90.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The reason of the rule is obvious. There must be some point where the litigation in the lower court terminates and the right to appeal to the higher court begins.””
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.