Greenwalt v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently March 1984 · most notably Thornton Ex Rel. Thornton v. Pender (1978), Grimm v. State (1970)
3 federal appellate · 74 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 Wade v. Hunter · Jencks v. United States · Downum v. United States · McCoy v. State · Weaver 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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is only when there is an absence of substantial evidence on an essential element of an alleged crime, or when the evidence is without conflict and leads to but one reasonable conclusion and the verdict of the jury reached a contrary conclusion, that the verdict will be disturbed as not being supported by sufficient evidence or as being contrary to law." (Emphasis supplied.) Greenwalt v. State (1965), 246 Ind. 608, 615 , 209 N.E.2d 254, 257 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Stock v. State · Emery v. State““As this court has held before, it is not error to refuse to give an instruction, notwithstanding it states a correct principal applicable to the case, if it has already been covered substantially or adequately by other instructions given.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The question of identity is one of fact and not of law. Therefore all evidence bearing upon the question must be submitted to the jury, and it is for the. jury to 3. determine whether it is satisfactory ánd trustworthy. (Citing cases).” Medsker v. State (1946), 224 Ind. 587, 590 , 70 N. E. 2d 182 ; Barnes v. State (1965), 246 Ind. 485 , 205 N. E. 2d 539 ; Greenwalt v. State (1965), 246 Ind. 608 , 209 N. E. 2d 254 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adams 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.