Carson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 2009 · most notably Norton v. State (1980), Chandler v. State (1981)
35 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 Reid v. State · Johns v. State · Gregory v. State · Morris v. Indiana · Heflin 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the State violates a proper discovery order, a trial court has wide discretion to remedy the transgression. “ ‘Obviously, the trial judge is usually in the best position to determine what harm, if any, evolved from a violation, whether or not such harm can be eliminated or satisfactorily alleviated and the dictates of fundamental fairness. Absent clear error in his decision it should not be overturned.’ Reid v. State (1978) Ind., 372 N.E.2d 1149, 1155 .” Accord, O’Conner v. State, (1980) Ind., 399 N.E.2d 364 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Chandler v. State · Boyd v. State“continuance or a recess until such time as the defendant has been afforded an opportunity to examine the evidence or witness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wallace 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.