Kidwell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently October 1992 · most notably Liston v. State (1969), 179 Ind. App. 143 - McFarland v. State (1979)
41 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 Sherfey v. City of Brazil · Capps v. State · Simmons v. State · Short v. State · Dowd, Warden v. Sullivan
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[When words of specific or limited signification in a statute are followed by general words of more comprehensive import, the general words are construed to embrace only such things as are of like kind or class with those designated by the specific words, unless a contrary intention is clearly expressed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Whether a particular object is or is not a dangerous or deadly weapon depends in many cases upon the manner in which it is used."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Liston v. State · Maynard 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.