Manlove v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
151 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 153 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Ortiz v. State (1976), Gaddis v. State (1969)
151 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 · State v. Gregory · Easton v. State · Howard v. State · Christen 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 153 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"If mere opportunity or suspicion are sufficient to convict an accused of a felonious homicide ... then the life and liberty of many innocent people may be summarily sacrificed. The law requires substantial evidence to prove guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. We cannot predicate an affirmance of guilt upon mere possibility because of opportunity or suspicion." Manlove v. State, 250 Ind. at 83 , 232 N.E.2d at 881 (Citations omitted.)”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. AMARO v. State · Kissinger v. State““Thus it is clear that where the evidence is wholly circumstantial and fails to exclude every reasonable hypothesis of innocence such evidence is not sufficiently persuasive to allow a reasonable man to find the accused guilty beyond a reasonable doubt and such a finding of guilty cannot stand.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Shutt v. State · Seats v. State““A verdict based merely upon suspicion, opportunity, probability, conjecture, speculation, and unreasonable inferences of guilt gleaned from the vague circumstances in the record before us cannot be upheld and must be reversed.””
2 later decisions 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.