Elliott v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
51
cited by 51 later decisions
1
states following
June 1989
most recently cited
51 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Pullins v. State · Smith v. State · Dixon v. State · Poindexter v. State · Hancock County REMC v. City of Greenfield
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has long been settled law in this jurisdiction that any evidence tending to prove a material fact is admissible, even though its tendency in that direction may be exceedingly slight. Smith v. State (1937), 212 Ind. 605 , 10 N.E.2d 899 . It is equally well settled that positive proof of authentication of a fact or a thing is not necessary for admission of that fact or thing into evidence but circumstantial evidence is relevant. Dixon v. State (1963), 243 Ind. 654 , 189 N.E.2d 715 . This court, in Pullins v. State (1970), 253 Ind. 644 , 256 N.E.2d 553 , held that ‘any fact which tends to connect appellant with commission of a crime is admissible’.” Elliott v. State, (1972) 258 Ind. 92 at 96 , 279 N.E.2d 207 at 209 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Colvin v. State · Bailey v. State
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