State v. Carlson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably State v. Loebach (1981), State v. Helterbridle (1980)
34 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. Thurston · State v. Morrison
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule is that a jury has a power of lenity and can bring in a not guilty verdict in the teeth of the facts. While it does not follow from this principle that a defendant is entitled to have all lesser-included offenses submitted even if the evidence does not reasonably warrant their submission, it does follow that he is entitled to have all the elements of the offense with which he is charged submitted even if the evidence relating to these elements is uncontra-dicted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. LaMere v. State“whether it is likely that the errors substantially influenced the jury to convict. The strength of the evidence is only one factor”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Glaze
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.