State v. Overman’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
190 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 194 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1999 · most notably Britt v. North Carolina (1971), State v. Sparrow (1970)
190 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 Hoag v. State of New Jersey · Public Service Commission v. United States · Ciucci v. Illinois · State v. Bruce · State v. Birckhead
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 194 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If each of two criminal offenses, as a matter of law, requires proof of some fact, proof of which fact is not required for conviction of the other offense, the two offenses are not the same and a former jeopardy with reference to the one does not bar a subsequent prosecution for the other.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"I instruct you finally that if the State has satisfied you from the evidence and beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant * * * entered this store with the intent to commit armed robbery [again defining armed robbery] and that he not only intended to commit the offense but that he did some overt act, that is, some visible act, which went beyond mere preparation to commit the offense but which fell short of the actual commission of the offense. "Now, members of the jury, I instruct you that taking a thirty-eight caliber pistol out of a purse would be such an overt act as would satisfy this element of the offense. "If you so find, members of the jury, beyond a reasonable doubt, then it would be your duty to return a verdict of guilty as charged against the defendant. "If you fail to so find, or, if upon a fair and impartial consideration of all the evidence in the case you have a reasonable doubt either that the defendant did not intend to commit the crime of armed robbery, or, if he intended to do so he did not commit the overt act necessary to constitute an offense, then, members of the jury, it would be your duty to give the defendant the benefit of that doubt and to find him not guilty."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Powell““Therefore, with respect to the second count, that is, the count of larceny charged in the bill of indictment, if you find from the evidence and beyond a reasonable doubt, the burden being upon the State of North Carolina to so satisfy you, that the defendants took and carried away the television sets, the property of the Advance Stores, Inc., without its consent and against its will, that such property was taken and carried away by the defendants with the felonious intent to deprive the owner, the Advance Stores, of its property permanently and to convert the same to the defendants’ own use or to the use of some other person other than the true owners, the Advance Stores, if you find these to be the facts beyond a reasonable doubt, then it would be your duty to render a verdict of guilty.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.