Craig v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 2000 · most notably Wright v. State (1997), Gilliam v. State (1978)
39 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 Jackson v. Denno · Maldonado v. State · Ortiz v. State · Hauk v. State · Adler 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Disciplinary Rule 7-106(0(4) of the Code of Professional Responsibility as adopted in Indiana provides: ‘(c) In appearing in his professional capacity before a tribunal, a lawyer shall not: * * * (4) Assert his personal opinion ... as to the credibility of a witness... but he may argue, on his analysis of the evidence, for any proposition or conclusion with respect to the matters stated herein.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gilliam v. State“the jury will infer that the prosecutor bases his belief on inside knowledge of the case and will accept his remark as having evidentiary value.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hossman 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.