Pyle v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2017
2 federal appellate · 16 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 Zickefoose v. State · Norton v. State · Henderson v. State · Hedrick v. State · 180 Ind. App. 5 - Reed 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]bandonment relieves an accused of criminal responsibility when `a criminal enterprise is cut short by a change of heart, desertion of criminal purpose, change of behavior, and rising revulsion for the harm intended.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Babin v. State · Sheckles v. State“"A person who knowingly or intentional ly takes property from another person or from the presence of another person: (1) by using or threatening the use of force on any person; or (2) by putting any person in fear; commits robbery, a Class C felony. However, the offense is a Class B felony if it is committed while armed with a deadly weapon, and a Class A felony if it results in either bodily injury or serious bodily injury to any other person."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lipka v. State“abandonment must occur before the criminal act charged is in the process of consummation or has become so inevitable that it cannot reasonably be stayed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Munford 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.