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Swanson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1996

Citation profile

27
cited by 27 later decisions
1
states following
June 2017
most recently cited

27 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Joyner v. State (1997), Thompson v. State (1997)

27 state decisions

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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 Hardin v. State · Palmer v. State · Swanson 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show action in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident, provided that upon request by the accused, the prosecution in a criminal case shall provide reasonable notice in advance of trial, or during trial if the court excuses pre-trial notice on good cause shown, of the general nature of any such evidence it intends to introduce at trial ."”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Howard v. State · Allen v. State
  2. “paradigm of such inadmissible evidence is a crime committed on another day in another place, evidence whose only apparent purpose is to prove the defendant is a person who commits crimes.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Howard v. State · State v. Seabrooks
  3. “has not survived the adoption of [the Indiana Rules of Evidence].”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Lycan 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.