State v. Dugan’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Michael Day v. State of Indiana (2016), Curley v. Lake County Board of Elections & Registration (2008)
31 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 Kolender v. Lawson · United States v. Harriss · United States v. Bass · McBoyle v. United States · Clifft v. Indiana Department of State Revenue
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the language of Ind.Code § 35-44-1-2(1) is broad and general, the heart of the issue in an official misconduct charge is explicit: whether the act was done by a public official in the course of his official duties. There must be a connection between the charge and the duties of the office. A charge for misconduct must rest upon criminal behavior that is related to the performance of official duties. Needless to say, if the misconduct bears no relation to the official duties, there is no official misconduct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]ords are to be given their plain, ordinary, and usual meaning, unless a contrary purpose is shown by the statute itself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a public servant who ... knowingly or intentionally performs an act that he is forbidden by law to perform ... commits official misconduct, a Class A misdemeanor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kinnon 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.