Finch v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 1981 · most notably McAfee v. State (1973), Gann v. State (1971)
39 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 · Tait v. State · McAdams v. State · Bradley v. State · Bradley 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . . Assuming that the goods found with him were the actual goods stolen, the unexplained possession of the stolen goods is sufficient to sustain a conviction for larceny. Gilley et al. v. State (1949), 227 Ind. 701 , 88 N. E. 2d 759 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Howard v. State““That the verdict of the Jury is not sustained by sufficient evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. DeVault 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.