Wilson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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

1. “(Appel-lee's Brief, p. 8) In Ashton v. Anderson (1972), 258 Ind. 51 , 279 N.E.2d 210 , our supreme court limited the convictions for which a witness may be impeached for credibility to those involving infamous crimes (treason, murder, rape, arson, burglary, robbery, kidnapping, forgery and willful and corrupt perjury) or crimes involving dishonesty or false statement. 2 See Wilson v. State (1988), Ind.App., 521 N.E.2d 363, 367 , reh. denied, trans. denied. However, a defendant may”

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

2. ““Deviate sexual conduct” means an act involving: (1) a sex organ of one person and the mouth or anus of another person; or (2) the penetration of the sex organ or anus of a person by an object.”

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

3. “rulings of a successor judge will not be disturbed for failure to specifically find that the first judge [was] unavailable.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Christenson v. Struss