Hughes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2009
8 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 New v. State · New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad v. Henderson · Hunt v. State · 170 Ind. App. 525 - Grimes v. State · 137 Ind. App. 96 - Ellet v. Ellet
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] defendant may not sit idly by while error is committed and later take advantage of it, where a proper objection made at trial could have corrected the error.... Had objection been made to the lack of a proper foundation in this case, such foundation could then have been supplied.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Mullins v. State · Guadian v. State“What evidence is sufficient to explain or refute the prima facie case is addressed to the decision of the trier.... A prima facie case was established. Whether the fact that Hughes passed the dexterity test rebutted the prima facie case was for the determination of the trier of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mullins v. State“Hughes' aberrant driving behavior of traveling 87 miles-per-hour, 32 miles-per-hour over the speed limit, at dusk, reflected impaired judgment in ability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boyd 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.