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← 428 NE2D 772 - Beard v. State

Beard v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1981

Citation profile

23
cited by 23 later decisions
1
states following
April 1997
most recently cited

23 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Hester v. State · Robbins v. State · Beard v. State · Hubbard v. State · Lamb 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"Before counsel's failure to enter an objection may be regarded as ineffective representation, Petitioner must show that, had a proper objection been made, the trial court would have had no choice but to sustain it." Beard v. State, (1981) Ind., 428 N.E.2d 772, 774 .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “the acts of petitioner for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment would be punishable by a maximum of but four years imprisonment”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “the inequity and unconstitutionality of his continued confinement in the light of today's statute.”
    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.