Hensley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2000 · most notably Ashton v. Anderson (1972), Bryant v. State (1973)
26 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 Kallas v. State · Woods v. State · Wells v. State · Petro 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the defendant takes the witness stand, the State may cross-examine him concerning his credibility. However, in so doing the State is not permitted to inquire into specific acts of misconduct other than prior convictions.” 256 Ind. at 260-61 , 268 N.E.2d 90 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Abbott v. State · Ottinger 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.