State v. Christian’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 1974
20 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 State v. Lehman · State v. Cushenberry · State v. Richmond · State v. Carragin · State v. Daubert
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Were the two offenses charged such as are permitted to be joined in the same information ? We think not. The statute permits a count for larceny to be joined with a count for embezzlement, or with a count for obtaining property by any false pretense, or false token. [Sec. 5103, R. S. 1909.] If an offense by law comprises different degrees the information may contain counts for the several degrees of the same offense, or for one or more of them. [Sec. 5104, R. S. 1909.] In cases of burglary, where in the act of committing the burglary a larceny is also committed, defendant by statute may be charged with both offenses in the same count or in separate counts of the same information, and if found guilty may be punished by a separate term of imprisonment for each offense. [Sec. 4528, R. S. 1909.] In passing we may say that this is the only exception in our State to the rule that but one punishment can by law be meted out for the commission of a single criminal act. So far the statute prescribes the practice. “We have held, however, that a count for forgery may be joined with a count for uttering the instrument forged (State v. Carragin, 210 Mo. 351 ) ; and that a count for larceny may be joined with a count for receiving stolen goods. [State v. Richmond, 186 Mo. 71 .] In none of such cases, except that of burglary and larceny above adverted to, will more than one conviction be allowed to stand, and at the close of the case either an election must be made by the State or the jury ”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Link
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.