Stevens v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 1991
7 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 Alyea v. State · Headlee v. State · Warner v. State · Smith v. State · State v. Beckwith
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““‘[I]t is the duty of the court upon a plea of guilty or upon a finding or verdict of guilty, to impose sentence at that time unless there is a reasonable excuse for delay, which delay must be for a time certain for a definite recognized legal purpose, and that an indefinite postponement of rendering judgment or pronouncing sentence will deprive the court of jurisdiction of the person of the defendant, from which it follows that a subsequent sentence is void.’ ... Warner v. State, 194 Ind. 426, 431 , 143 N. E. 288 . See also Smith v. State (1919), 188 Ind. 64 , 121 N. E. 829” [Our italics.] Stevens v. State, supra, pp. 422-423.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smeltzer 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.