Swift v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 1981 · most notably Tait v. State (1963), Shuemak 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 Schlegel v. State · Bange v. State · Lawson v. State · State v. Sullivan · JACKSON, ETC. 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.
““ . . . [I]t is the province of the jury to determine the credibility of witnesses and determine whether they will believe all, none, or any part of a witness’s testimony, ... It follows that the jury is not necessarily compelled to accept that portion of the testimony of the accused or other witnesses which tends to support his plea ...” Swift v. State (1961), 242 Ind. 87, 90 , 176 N. E. 2d 117 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wells v. State · Robinson v. State““Appellant’s objection to the question for the reason ‘that the State had not laid a proper foundation for an offer to prove’ was not a valid objection as this question was asked on cross-examination, and it is ivell settled that offers to prove are not required on cross-examination.” (Our emphasis.)”
1 later decision 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.