4 Or. App. 349 - State v. Samter’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably Bowers v. State (1978), State v. Brown (1983)
25 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Any person, not being a parent of the child, who knowingly and wilfully cruelly mistreats and maltreats a child under the age of 16 years, shall be punished. . .’ (Emphasis ours.)””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[T]he standard need not be defined with such precision that those affected by it will never be required to hazard their freedom upon correctly foreseeing the manner in which a matter of degree may be resolved by a jury. * * *" State of Oregon v. Wojahn, 204 Or. 84, 137 , 282 P.2d 675, 701 (1955).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"* * * The determinative factor is whether there is a reasonable degree of common understanding of what is encompassed within the general terms of prohibition."”
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.