Penn v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Miller v. Johnson (2012), Taylor v. State (1972)
103 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 Baker v. State · State v. Gregory · Bradley v. State · Sylvester v. State · Morgan 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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘In the leading case of State v. Gregory (1936), 339 Mo. 133, 143 , 96 S. W. 2d 47, 52 , the court analyzed the rule on review to be as follows: “. . . it becomes the duty of an appellate court as a matter of law to decide whether the evidence was sufficient to induce a belief of the defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt in the minds of jurors of average reason and intelligence. And in resolving that question the court undoubtedly can pass on the credibility of the testimony to the extent of determining whether it was substantial in the sense above explained. . . .” ’ (emphasis added). See also: Penn v. State (1957), 237 Ind. 374, 380, 381 , 146 N.E.2d 240 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Kimble v. State · Meadows v. State““ . . .’ if no reasonable man could find the evidence has proved an accused guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, a verdict would not be sustained by sufficient evidence. “When we carefully examine the cases decided in the long history of this court which have reversed convictions because they were not sustained by sufficient evidence, it is apparent that ' the court was applying a test that some material allegation had not been proved by substantial evidence so that no reasonable man could say this issue had been proved beyond a reasonable doubt.” See also: Penn v. State (1957), 237 Ind. 374 , 146 N. E. 2d 240 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Riggs v. State“"In the extremely rare instances where the parties are so depraved that they see nothing wrong with two women sleeping and sharing the sexual attention of the husband of one of them in the same bed, then it is inconceivable that on the occasions thereafter when the women were together they would never mention the experience nor talk about sex."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mullins 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.