Lawson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2017
12 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 11 Okla. Crim. 103 - Estep v. State · Shackelford v. State · Privitt v. State · Lawson 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A defendant convicted of robbery by firearms cannot be additionally convicted and sentenced for possession of the narcotics taken in that robbery where the evidence shows there was but one criminal act which incidentally violated more than one statute.” 481 P.2d at 164 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Richmond v. State · Smith v. State““[T]he Statutes prevent multiple punishment, under different sections of the Statues, for several crimes committed during one criminal transaction.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. STATE v. KISTLER · Smith v. State““Consequently, the determinative question in this appeal is: Were defendant’s criminal acts one transaction ? There can be no argument with the fact that defendant’s act were set on foot for the single purpose of committing the act of burglary. In the fulfillment of that purpose, he also committed the crime of Armed Robbery, in an unintermittent manner.” (Emphasis Ours)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Loane v. State
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.