Stone v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2013
22 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 Lanham 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.
““To construe the statute as literally intended . . . would result in punishing as a crime many acts or omissions so trivial in themselves that it cannot be rationally concluded that it was intended that they should be made criminal. There is nothing in the act to indicate where the line is to be drawn between trivial and substantial things. It must be left to the judgment of each trial judge who is required to pass upon the sufficiency of affidavits or indictments. Such a statute is clearly bad for uncertainty.” Stone v. State (1942), 220 Ind. 165, at 175 , 41 N.E.2d 609, at 613 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gross v. State · Kinney v. State“The age of the appellant is not disclosed by the evidence, although it may be surmised that she was a young girl, and of the approximate age of eighteen years. The statute, if it is valid, applied only to adults. The affidavit would not state an offense unless it alleged, as it does, that the defendant is an adult. What must be alleged must be proven, and there is no proof of the appellant's age.... (Emphasis added). Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bowens v. State“"There is no evidence that Barbara, whose age is not disclosed, counseled or encouraged Katherine to remain out all night, or that she knew, or had reason to know, that Katherine intended to stay out all night, or that, knowing of such an intention, she had any power or influence to prevent it. This is clearly not sufficient to sustain the allegations of the first count of the affidavit."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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