State v. Gilbert’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 1997
15 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.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"When the same conduct or criminal episode violates two or more statutory provisions, each such violation constitutes a separate and distinct offense. " (Emphasis added)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"* * * The intent of the legislature is seldom obvious. Therefore, when the court thinks it would be unfair to permit the defendant's conduct to be divided into several offenses, the court will not approve the division unless the legislature has clearly provided that it can be divided." (Citation omitted.) 281 Or. at 107 , 574 P.2d 313 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Knowles
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.