Bays v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently October 2004 · most notably State v. Lora (1973), United States v. Thomas (1971)
3 federal appellate · 78 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 Wright v. State · Struck v. United States · Stice v. State · Boos v. State · Suter 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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Prior to the adoption of the above rule it was permissible to independently assign many errors in the proceeding which preceded the filing of a motion for new trial. However, the rule as changed requires that, in all proceedings where a trial is had and motion for new trial is contemplated, such errors shall be specified as a ground for new trial. The chief reason for requiring that such errors be set forth as causes in a motion for new trial is that the trial judge have a chance to review the subject matter complained of and correct the error, if any, by granting the motion for new trial prior to appeal. ...””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““. . . the law is now settled that a person may be charged with a crime as a principal and convicted on evidence that he aided in the commission of the crime, Evans v. State (1946), 224 Ind. 428 , 68 N.E.2d 546 , and that in the presence of evidence to support it, an instruction based upon the statute, § 9-102, Burns’ 1956 Repl., which makes accessories guilty as principals, is proper. Workman v. State (1939), 216 Ind. 68 , 21 N.E.2d 712 , 23 N.E.2d 419 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““... an assignment of error on appeal to the effect that the trial court erred in overruling said motion [for a new trial] shall be the only means of raising said asserted errors on appeal.””
2 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.