Wurster v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2013
12 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 United States v. Dionisio · Hurtado v. People of the State of California · Rose v. Mitchell · Averhart v. State · Coons 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Indiana, the voters of each county elect a prosecutor every four years. Once elected, these officials acquire the awesome power to bring any citizen into court to face criminal charges. This may be done by information or by indictment, subject only to the procedural checks built into each process. If an information is used, the prosecutor alone bears responsibility for the decision to charge the defendant. If the prosecutor chooses to proceed via grand jury indictment, the grand jury shares that responsibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“concerns for judicial economy and fairness dictate that defendants should be permitted to challenge venue in a pretrial motion.... In the vast majority of cases, a challenge to venue at an early stage will serve not only the interests of the parties but also those of judicial economy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Neff v. State“analogous to firing a gun across a county line. The offense is committed in both the county where the shooting starts and the county where the victim is hit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Laughner 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.