Szpyrka v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that where the victims had positively identified the defendant, “it stretche[d] credulity to believe that the jury could have been swayed to such an extent that except for the improper remark by the police officer appellant would have been acquitted.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Moore v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1995-06-22· cited 118×
• James v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1993-05-13· cited 108×
• Mickens v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-02-27· cited 100×
• Schlomer v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1991-11-07· cited 74×
• Lucio v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2009-06-23· cited 48×
• Roche v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1992-07-20· cited 44×
• Bardonner v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1992-03-12· cited 32×
• Everroad v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1991-04-15· cited 28×
• Norton v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2003-03-26· cited 13×
• Dixon v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1993-10-18· cited 2×
• JASON GIBBS v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2023-06-28
• James Harold Higgason, III v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2023-05-19
• Brady McDaniel v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2025-11-14

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Rondon v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1989-03-01· cited 32×
• Moore v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1987-12-04· cited 29×
• Brendel v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1984-03-13· cited 22×
• Fox v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1980-01-31· cited 16×
• Conley v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1983-02-25· cited 15×
• Reno v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1987-10-27· cited 13×
• Lee v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1988-12-21· cited 13×