Sears v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
October 1997
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lawrence v. State · French v. State · Archer v. State · Strickland v. State · Jones v. American Family Mutual Insurance Co.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[That the allegations of habitual criminal must contain all of the procedural matters and safeguards of the original and underlying charges in that they are brought by sworn affidavit contained in an information and endorsed by the prosecuting attorney, setting out the facts sufficient and adequate for the defendant to defend himself and giving the defendant an opportunity to plead to such allegations." Id. at 165 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Northern v. State · Ashley v. State“Recent cases have shown that when the various acts which comprise the crime are part of the 'single chain of events,' the charge may be brought in the county where the acts began or ended. Osborne v. State (1981), Ind., 426 N.E2d 20; French v. State (1977), 266 Ind. 276 , 362 N.E.2d 834 ; Spoonmore v. State (1980), Ind.App., 411 N.E.2d 146 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Dudley v. State · Andrews 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.