State v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2016
13 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 Arthur J. Nathaniel v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections · 56 Ohio St. 2d 35 - State v. Johnson · Commonwealth v. Golston · State v. Fierro · 85 Wis. 2d 722 - Cranmore v. State
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Causation. The State must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant’s acts had a substantial part in bringing about Destiny Gatson’s death. It is not necessary that the defendant’s acts be the sole cause of death so long as the defendant’s acts start a [chain] of events which results in or substantially contributes to the death. And, further, if this chain of causation is found to exist, it is not broken by any treatment or lack of treatment administered to Destiny Gatson by the doctors in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gatson“A cause is a cause which had a substantial part in bringing about the occurrence at issue. A superseding cause is defined as other effects which comes after the original occurrence and which turns aside the natural sequence of events and produces a result which would not otherwise have followed from the original event.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith“* * * the issue raised is of profound human interest, prudence dictates, we think, that the legislature should first be given an opportunity to consider the legal implications of brain death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Merrill
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.