Shutt v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 2002 · most notably Baker v. State (1956), Glover v. State (1970)
45 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 Hinshaw v. State · Goodwin v. State · Christen v. State · Todd v. State · Hunt 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘What is actually meant by the statement found in many cases, that an inference cannot be based upon an inference, is that an inference cannot be based upon evidence which is uncertain or speculative or which raises merely a conjecture or possibility.’ ” People v. Eaves, supra, 145 N.W.2d 260, 263 , quoting from Shutt v. State (1954), 233 Ind. 169 , 117 N.E.2d 892, 894 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Champagne · Love v. State““What is actually meant by the statement found in many cases, that an inference cannot be based upon an inference, is that an inference cannot be based upon evidence which is uncertain or speculative or which raises merely a conjecture or possibility. (Citations omitted.) It may be true that appellant’s guilt must be established by inference drawn from circumstantial evidence. However, these inferences are not based upon uncertain or speculative evidence but upon proven facts which are, under the surrounding circumstances in this case, sufficient to support an inference of guilt.” Id. at 174 , 117 N.E.2d at 894 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walton & 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.