Ware v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently September 1991 · most notably Turner v. State (1972), Matter of Tina T. (1991)
37 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 · Ritchie v. State · Cook v. State · Miles v. State · O'Malia 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"No defendant convicted of a felony shall be committed by any criminal court of record before a written precommitment investigation report, prepared by a probation officer, is presented to and considered by the sentencing court. Whenever precommitment investigation is required, the probation officer making the investigation shall inquire into the circumstances of the offense and shall make such investigation as is prescribed by the state probation director of the department of correction. All local and state police agencies shall be required to furnish to the probation officer such records as the probation officer may request. Where in the opinion of the sentencing court, or the investigating authority, it is desirable, the precommitment investigation may include a physical and mental examination of the defendant. If a defendant is thereafter committed to any penal and correctional institution the investigating agency shall send a written report of its precommitment investigation to the penal institution at the time of commitment."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Summers v. State · Robb v. State““No defendant convicted of a felony shall be committed by any criminal court of record before a written precommitment investigation report, prepared by a probation officer, is presented to and considered by the sentencing court.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ . . . [T]hat for the offense by him committed he be, and hereby is, committed to the custody of the Board of Trustees of the Indiana Reformatory to be confined by them for a period of not less than two nor more than five years and that he pay costs herein, or stand committed until costs are paid or stayed. “The sentence of commitment to the Indiana Reformatory is suspended during good behavior of defendant and under condition that he report to this court immediately upon determination of Sodomy charge pending in Marion County and payment of costs is stayed until further order of court.””
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.