State v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 state decisions

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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Although the State did not introduce any evidence as to the defendant’s age, education or prior experience with law enforcement authorities, it did introduce by way of Detective Cable’s observations of the defendant and the verbatim transcript of the entire interrogation in question sufficient evidence going to the defendant’s background, intelligence and general capacity to understand the waiver, to permit the Court to adequately evaluate this issue, especially in light of the fact that no issue has been raised casting doubt on the defendant’s mental capacity or physical ability to understand the nature of the asserted waiver.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Ives