State v. O'Donnell’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently December 1952 · most notably Frank v. State (1914), Morse v. Commonwealth (1908)
44 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 Moore v. United States · People v. . Harris · Pierson v. . the People · Commonwealth v. Robinson · People v. Sanders
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule that evidence of crimes other than that charged in the indictment is inadmissible is subject to a few exceptions, speaking of which Mr. Underhill, in his valuable work on Criminal Evidence (Section 87), says: ‘These exceptions are carefully limited and guarded by the courts, and their number should not be increased.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Willson · State v. McClard““If several similar criminal acts are so connected by the prisoner, with respect to time and locality, that they form an inseparable transaction, and a complete account of the offense charged in the indictment canutó be given without detailing the particulars of such other acts, evidence of any or all of the component parts thereof is admissible to prove the whole general plan. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Robinson“The cases in which offenses other than those charged in the indictment may be proved, for the purpose of showing guilty knowledge or intent, are very few.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Willson
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.