Bruce v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Madison v. State (1955), Short v. State (1954)
38 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 House v. State · Hazlett v. State · Chandler v. State · Lester v. Grant Circuit Court · Goldstine 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““David L. Smith being first duly sworn upon his oath says that he is informed and believes that on or about the 14th day of August, 1951, at and in the County of Madison, State of Indiana, the defendant, H. Y. Wilson, did then and there unlawfully and feloniously attempt to commit a violent injury upon the person of Ruby M. Smith, he, the said H. Y. Wilson, then and there having the present ability to commit the said injury by then and there unlawfully, feloniously, purposely and with premedmied malice, shooting at and into the said Ruby M. Smith, a human being, with a certain deadly weapon, to wit: a .32 caliber revolver then and there loaded with gunpowder and bullets, which the said H. Y. Wilson then and there had and held in his hands, with intent then and there and thereby, her, the said Ruby M. Smith, unlawfully, feloniously, purposely and with premedmied malice to kill and murder, all being contrary . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. State“Where an indictment or affidavit is uncertain or ambiguous, or where its language admits of more than one construction, all reasonable doubts are to be resolved in favor of the accused and it will be construed most strongly against the state. McNamara v. State (1932), 203 Ind. 596 , 181 N.E. 512 ; Hunt v. State (1927), 199 Ind. 550 , 159 N.E. 149 ; Littell v. State (1893), 133 Ind. 577 , 33 N.E. 417 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Short 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.