State v. Olander’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Erickstad (2000), State v. Thompson (2010)
104 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. Olano · Johnson v. United States · United States v. Atkinson · Martin v. Ohio · California Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Guerra
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an appellate court should not correct an error unless there is a clear deviation from an applicable legal rule under current law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“We exercise our power to notice obvious error cautiously and only in exceptional circumstances where the accused has suffered serious injustice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Grant · State v. Mathre“an accused's guilt or innocence is not the determinative factor; rather, the fairness and integrity of the proceeding is paramount”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Morales · State v. Johnson
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.