Kuhn v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Abraham v. State (1950), State v. Lindsey (1952)
3 federal appellate · 54 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 Dobosky v. State · State Ex Rel. Cutsinger v. Spencer, Judge · Irwin v. State · Mislik v. State · Soucie 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A judgment on a plea of guilty has the same finality as any other judgment. The defendant may challenge its validity by motion during the term, by appeal, or, in certain cases, by writ of error coram nobis after the term has expired. But in either case the burden is upon him to establish the invalidating facts. State ex rel. Cutsinger v. Spencer (1941), 219 Ind. 148 , 41 N. E. (2d) 601; State ex rel. Sawa v. Criminal Court of Lake County (1942), 220 Ind. 4 , 40 N. E. (2d) 97; Irwin v. State (1942), 220 Ind. 228 , 41 N. E. (2d) 809____” Kuhn v. State (1944), 222 Ind. 179 , 52 N. E. 2d 491 . See also: Schmittler v. State, supra.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hathaway v. State · Snow v. State““Frequently an issue of fact is submitted and decided upon verified complaints and. answers or upon affidavits and counter-affidavits. . . When so submitted uncontroverted facts appearing in the verified pleadings are treated as true and the trier resolves conflicts as he would in considering oral testimony.” (My italics).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Yessen 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.