State v. Stokes’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1980
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 The People v. Flaherty · McCrillis v. State · Kennedy 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By the great weight of authority an indictment for burglary must allege directly the ownership of the building entered. Generally there are two reasons advanced for the majority rule: first, that the ownership should be pleaded for the purpose of showing that the building broken into was not the building of the accused or that the accused did not have the right to enter the building; and, second, that the ownership should be alleged for the purpose of so identifying the offense as to protect the accused against a subsequent prosecution for the same offense. This Court, in the case of McCrillis v. State (1879), 69 Ind. 159 , has sanctioned the majority rule as above set out. In that opinion this Court stated: ‘There can be no doubt that it was necessary to state in the indictment the true name of the owner of the property burglariously entered, unless, indeed there was some reason given why it could not be stated”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.