Bledsoe v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 state decisions

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.

1. ““If, in fact, it [the affidavit] was not indorsed as required, and the trial court’s attention had been directed to the defect by a motion to quash, before the beginning of the trial it could then have been properly indorsed. Cole v. State [(1907), 169 Ind. 393 , 82 N. E. 796 ] supra. It would be a reproach to the law to require a judgment to be held for naught, and the State put to the expense of another trial, for a defect which did not prejudice the substantial rights of appellant, and which he could have had corrected before trial if it in fact existed. This we are forbidden to do. §2221 Burns 1908, §1891 R. S. 1881.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mattingly v. State

2. ““As soon as a grand jury has returned an indictment into court, the judge must examine it; and if the foreman has neglected to indorse it ‘A true bill’ with his name signed thereto, . . . the court must cause the foreman to . . . sign it, . . . in the presence of the jury.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. West v. State

3. “relates to and defines the particular county or territorial area within the state or district in which the cause or prosecution must be brought or tried.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Evans v. State