Bivins v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that defendant is responsible for decedent's death if the injury which he inflicted contributed to death, even if other causes also contributed
• “The fact that other causes may also have contributed to the death does not relieve the actor of responsibility”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

24 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Morris v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1977-07-07· cited 55×
• Barnes v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1978-07-26· cited 50×
• Swafford v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1981-05-28· cited 50×
• Tynes v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1995-05-30· cited 43×
• Gomez v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-06-15· cited 41×
• Reed v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1979-03-28· cited 36×
• Grooms v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1978-08-24· cited 35×
• Wickliffe v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1981-08-19· cited 32×
• Barber v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-04-09· cited 32×
• Martin v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1973-06-05· cited 31×
• Manna v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1982-10-07· cited 24×
• Bales v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1981-03-26· cited 21×
• Lamb v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1976-06-04· cited 18×
• Hodge v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1982-12-14· cited 16×
• Walker v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1980-09-25· cited 16×
• Johnson v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1981-07-16· cited 16×
• LaDuron v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1973-07-31· cited 14×
• Craig v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1980-05-14· cited 14×
• Asbell v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1984-10-02· cited 13×
• Denman v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1982-03-16· cited 10×

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wahl v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1951-05-18· cited 37×
• Kelley v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1876-11-15· cited 29×