Wells v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently May 2004 · most notably Turner v. State (1972), McNew v. State (1979)
91 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 Johnson v. Lutz · Trustees of Indiana University v. WILLIAMS · Fair v. State · Hardin v. State · 115 Ind. App. 10 - Wayne Works v. Hicks Body Co.
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Hearsay evidence is testimony in court or written evidence, of a statement made out of court, such statement being offered as an assertion to show the truth of matters asserted therein, and thus resting for its value upon the credibility of the out-of-court asserter.’ (McCormack, Evidence § 225)””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The heart of the rule then is the requirement that the observation, report ing, and the recording of the facts all be made by someone in the regular course of the business. Without this there is no assurance of the accuracy and reliability of the fact which justifies the admission of the record as evidence of the facts asserted therein." (Emphasis in original.)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“1) The records offered must have been the original entries; 2) They must have been made in the regular course of business at or near the time of the event recorded; 8) The facts must have been within the first hand knowledge of someone whose business duty it was to observe and report the facts; 4) The witness who had knowledge of the facts must be unavailable.”
4 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.