Bates v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 1992 · most notably Pavone v. State (1980), Reaves v. State (1992)
38 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 Kiefer v. State · Baum v. State · Robinson v. State · Carroll v. State · Hawkins 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Photographs are admissible to evidence anything that a witness might himself be permitted to testify to, if identified and verified by the witness. * * * Relevant evidence will not be rejected simply because it is gruesome and cumulative. * * * Relevance is the logical tendency of evidence to prove a material fact. * * *.” Bates v. State, (1977) 267 Ind. 8, 10 , 366 N.E.2d 659, 660 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gambill 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.