Prater v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “While it is true that we have held that the act of escape, by itself, is not proof of a defendant’s knowing and voluntary waiver of his right to appeal, we have also held that the act of escape is a voluntary act of defendant which may prevent [her] from meeting the criteria of being without fault ... [T]he defendant’s act of escape was [her] own voluntary act and ... the circumstances under which we could grant belated appeals [does] not include the renewal of rights lost by voluntary acts. Prater, 459 N.E.2d at 40 (citing Lewis v. State, 268 Ind. 398 , 375 N.E.2d 1102 (1978)).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Darby v. State