Peak v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2012
12 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 Beavers v. State · Smith v. State · Cole v. State · Hutchins v. State · Heyverests 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““COUNT ONE: Robert Clarkson, Jr., being duly sworn upon his oath says that James Zink, Robert Terry Miller, Jackie Miller and Dave Alumbaugh, late of said County, on the 3rd day of February A. D. 1967, in the said County of Sullivan, and State of Indiana, did then and there unlawfully, feloniously, and in a rude, insolent and angry manner, touch, beat, strike, and wound Robert Clarkson, Jr., then and there being with the felonious intent then and there and thereby, by violence and putting him in fear, to rob, take, steal and carry away the personal goods and chattels of the said Robert Clarkson, Jr., then and there being, against the will of the said Robert Clarkson, Jr. COUNT TWO: Robert Clarkson, Jr., being duly sworn upon his oath says that James Zink, Robert Terry Miller, Jackie Miller and Dave Alumbaugh, late of said County, on the 3rd day of February, A.D., 1967, in the said County of Sullivan and State of Indiana, did then and there unlawfully, feloniously and forcibly and by violence and putting the said Robert Clarkson, Jr., in fear, did rob, take and steal from the person of said Robert Clarkson, Jr., one pair of eye glasses and case, one cigarette lighter, one pencil and two (2) bank deposit books, belonging to the said Robert Clarkson, Jr., contrary to the form of the statute in such cases made and provided and against the peace and dignity of the State of Indiana.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zink v. State““The use of fictitious names is not to be encouraged by the courts. It lends itself too readily to fraud by reason of concealment involved and thus is too likely to be used against a public interest or a private interest, particularly those of creditors or other interested parties. It is well settled the law does not countenance or permit the use of a fictitious or assumed name in the execution of a fraudulent scheme.” Peak v. State (1960), 240 Ind. 334, 344 , 163 N. E. 2d 584, 590 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. West v. State““It is well settled that hearsay is not sufficient grounds for impeaching the verdict of the jury.” Peak v. State (1960), 240 Ind. 334, 350 , 163 N. E. 2d 584 ; Hutchins v. State (1898), 151 Ind. 667 , 52 N. E. 403 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis 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.