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← 437 NE2D 993 - McCormick v. State

McCormick v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1982

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
March 1998
most recently cited

20 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Rideout v. United States · Fisher v. United States · Loyd v. State · Hash v. State · Robinson 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"Our decisions allow the admission of evidence of unrelated criminal activity where the witness' testimony is necessary to complete the story of the criminal transaction, eg., Clemons v. State, (1981) Ind., 424 N.E.2d 113, 117 (cases cited therein)} Lee v. State (1977), 267 Ind. 315, 320 , 370 N.E.2d 327, 329 , or where the evidence may reveal the accused's state of mind. E.g., Choctaw v. State (1979), [270] Ind. [545], 387 N.E.2d. 1305, 1307, Dickinson v. State (1944), 222 Ind., 551, 556 , 55 N.E.2d. 325, 327."”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “The function of the voir dire is to ascertain whether or not the prospective juror can render a fair and impartial verdict in accordance with the law and the evidence.”
    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.