Ritter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 1985 · most notably Wedmore v. State (1957), Stowers v. State (1977)
30 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 Rahke v. State · Fiedler 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this court we examine the evidence to ascertain whether or not there was evidence from which the court could determine that the act of which complaint was made was committed by force and against the will of the prosecuting witness. Under the evidence different courts might reach different conclusions. However, the weight of the evidence, the credibility of the witnesses and the ultimate guilt or innocence of the appellant, presented a question for the determination of the trial court. There was evidence from which the court could find that the appellant was guilty of the crime charged in the affidavit, therefore we should not consider evidence to the contrary. Fiedler v. State (1939), 215 Ind. 53 , 18 N. E. 2d 384 .” Hunt v. State (1939), 216 Ind. 171 , 23 N. E. 2d 681 ; McCoy v. State (1937), 211 Ind. 109 , 4 N. E. 2d 535 ; Dowty v. State (1932), 203 Ind. 228 , 179 N. E. 720 ; Tosser v. State (1928), 200 Ind. 156 , 162 N. E. 49 ; Shine v. State (1925), 196 Ind. 686, 688 , 148 N. E. 411 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lottie v. State · Thomas 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.