Lynch v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Wright v. State (1995), Fisher v. State (2004)
30 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 182 Ind. App. 156 - Roddy v. State · Jones v. State · Ingram v. State · Swafford v. State · Whipple 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A person who kills another human being while committing or attempting to commit: (1) a Class C or Class D felony that inherently pose a risk of serious bodily injury; (2) a Class A misdemeanor that inherently poses a risk of serious bodily injury; or (3) a battery...."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Battery is defined as knowingly or intentionally touching another person in a rude, insolent or angry manner. IC XX-XX-X-X. Here, the killing of Hinton was accomplished by a”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. State · Wright v. State“it must look at the evidence presented in the case by both parties. If there is a serious evidentiary dispute about the element or elements distinguishing the greater from the lesser offense and if, in view of this dispute, a jury could conclude that the lesser offense was committed but not the greater, then it is reversible error for a trial court not to give an instruction, when requested, on the inherently or factually included lesser offense. If the evidence does not so support the giving of a requested instruction on an inherently or factually included lesser offense, then a trial court should not give the requested instruction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Broome 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.