Vaughn v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently June 1999 · most notably Gann v. State (1971), Johnson v. State (1972)
65 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 Cotton v. State · Finch v. State · Melvin v. State · Coach v. State · Bolton 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That a conviction may be sustained wholly on circumstantial evidence is not in doubt provided the evidence is of such probative value that a reasonable inference of guilt may be drawn. Coach v. State (1968), 250 Ind. 226 , 235 N. E. 2d 493 ; Medsker v. State (1968), 249 Ind. 369 , 232 N. E. 2d 869 ; Melvin v. State (1968), 249 Ind. 351 , 232 N. E. 2d 606 ; Stallings v. State (1967), 249 Ind. 110 , 231 N. E. 2d 29 .””
1 later decision 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.