Linger v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2016
13 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 Griffin v. California · Ortiz v. State · Baker v. State · Easton v. State · Associated Food Retailers of Greater Chicago, Inc. v. Jewel Tea 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As an appellate tribunal, we neither reweigh the evidence nor judge the credibility of witnesses when an appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence, but consider only the evidence most favorable to the State and all reasonable inferences to be drawn therefrom. We review the evidence for the purpose of determining, as a matter of law, whether there is substantial evi-denee of probative value from which a jury could reasonably infer or find the existence of each material element of the crime in order to reach the conclusion that the accused has been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Substantial evidence of probative value is evidence that has the qualities of directness and freedom from uncertainty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Townsend [v. State (1986), Ind., 498 N.E.2d 1198 ] also recognizes that the trial court may consider the particularized circumstances of the crime's factual elements, and the sentence may be enhanced if an element is particularly egregious ... [when] the trial court establishes, in its sentencing statement, reasons why the theft from an employer is any more grievous than theft from another and justifies imposition of an enhanced sentencel,]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Campbell v. State“''The Court has to consider the risk that a person will commit another crime, the nature and circumstances of the crime committed, the prior criminal record, character and the condition of the defendant. All of those things are considered as well as any other factors which the Court feels are important in determining the sentence and I have done that." Trial Record at 1007.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith 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.