Buttram v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently August 1992 · most notably Modesitt v. State (1991), D. H. v. J. H. (1981)
70 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 Patterson v. State · Young v. State · Hackett v. State · Lewis v. State · Flewallen 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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We further hold that the Court of Appeals erred in finding that the trial court had improperly instructed the jury on the crime of assault. First, the appellant failed to object at trial to the giving of that instruction. He has therefore waived the issue on appeal. Indiana Rules of Criminal Procedure 8(B); Thomas v. State, (1976) 264 Ind. 581 , 348 N.E.2d 4 . Second, the instruction acted only to the advantage of the appellant since it informed the jury that a lesser verdict could be returned.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stevens v. State““A determination of whether a child under age ten understands the nature and obligation of an oath is within the discretion of the trial court. When the court has an opportunity to observe the general maturity, intelligence and demeanor of the child, its determination of the child’s competence to testify will be reviewed only for an abuse of discretion. . . . ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bennett 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.