Brooks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently September 1994 · most notably 170 Ind. App. 295 - Burger Man, Inc. v. Jordan Paper Products, Inc. (1976), Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. v. Metzler (1992)
5 federal appellate · 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 Montgomery v. Crum · Eacock v. State · Hicks v. State · Boyle v. State · Osburn 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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[WJhile there are exceptions and even some trend to the contrary indicated in some jurisdictions, Indiana follows the traditional rule that a judgment of conviction in a eriminal prosecution is not admissible in a civil case, as evidence of the facts upon which it was based.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"`* * * The trial court in its discretion has wide latitude in permitting cross-examination to test the credibility of a witness by disclosing his general attitude toward the circumstances of the case, his interest, his motives, his prejudices, character and other influences which operate upon the mind, and only clear abuse of such discretion demands reversal.' (Emphasis ours). Blue v. State (1946), 224 Ind. 394 , 67 N.E.2d 377 , cert. denied 1947, 330 U.S. 840 , 67 S.Ct. 976 , 91 L.Ed. 1286 . Our attitude, on review, should be the same, whether the error claimed is the admission or the rejection of cross examination. Error, if any, must clearly appear, as we are slow to intervene in such cases." Brooks v. State (1973), Ind., 291 N.E.2d 559, at 560 .”
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.