State v. Parsons’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Sours v. State (1980), Sours v. State (1980)
30 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Chimel v. California · Benton v. Maryland · Cupp v. Murphy · Ex Parte Nielsen
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The bombing described in each count was the identical, self-same bombing. The person charged in Count I to have been killed by the bombing is the identical, self-same person whose life was charged to have been endangered by bombing, in Count II. The bombing which endangered the victim’s life was one and the same, inseparable and indivisible with the bombing which took her life. The victim’s death was instantaneous and simultaneous with the explosion of the bomb. The bomb was the death weapon. The necessary act toward the commission of the murder was the bombing. Likewise, the necessary act toward the commission of the bombing was the identical act necessary to constitute the crime of murder. The bombing was an incident included in the crime of murder as charged, but the state has obtained a conviction not only of the crime of murder by bombing but also a conviction for the incident of bombing. Absent a waiver ... a person cannot be “tried and convicted for a crime which has various incidents included in it,” and at the same time be tried for one of those incidents, “without being twice put in jeopardy for the same offence.” In re Nielsen, 131 U.S. 176, 188 , 9 S.Ct. 672, 676 , 33 L.Ed. 118 (1889). There was but one crime. . The state cannot split a single crime and prosecute it in separate parts. State v. Toombs, 326 Mo. 981 , 34 S.W.2d 61, 64 (1930); State v. Whitley, 382 S.W.2d 665 (Mo.1964); State v. Richardson, 460 S.W.2d 537, 539 [1] (Mo. banc 1970). If there is but a si”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Sours v. State · State v. Henderson“has been said to consist of three separate constitutional protections. It protects against a second prosecution for the same offense after acquittal. It protects against a second prosecution for the same offense after conviction. And it protects against multiple punishments for the same offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sours 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.