State v. Donaldson’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably State v. McReynolds (2009), State v. Sprague (2015)
2 federal appellate · 30 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 Chapman v. State of California · State v. Pabst · State v. Tosh · State v. Elnicki · Amoco Production Co. v. Charles B. Wilson, Jr., Inc.
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.
““Each crime charged against the defendant is a separate and distinct offense. You must decide each charge separately on the evidence and law applicable to it, uninfluenced by your decision as to any other charge. The defendant may be convicted or acquitted on any or all of the offenses charged. Your findings as to each crime charged must be stated in a verdict form signed by the Presiding Juror.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. McKissack“The court may permit a complaint or information to be amended at any time before verdict or finding if no additional or different crime is charged and if substantial rights of the defendant are not prejudiced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Smith“two or more acts or transactions connected together or constituting parts of a common scheme or plan.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Carter
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.