State v. Achter’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 1992 · most notably State v. Baldwin (1978), State v. Flenoid (1992)
2 federal appellate · 27 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 State v. Holbert · State v. Bockstruck · State v. Smith · Hennessy v. Automobile Owners' Ins. · State v. Zammar
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One of the issues in this case is whether the defendant was lawfully entitled to carry a concealed weapon. If you find and believe beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant carried upon or about his person a firearm not discernible by ordinary observation and that the defendant intended to so carry it as set forth in Instruction No. 5, then you must also consider whether the defendant was lawfully entitled to carry said weapon at the location of the offense charged. On this issue you are instructed that any legally qualified Sheriff, Police Officer, or other persons whose bonafide duty is to execute process, civil or criminal, make arrests, or aid in conserving the peace, may carry a concealed weapon upon or about his person only in the municipality in which he is so impowered. The State has the burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was not a legally qualified Sheriff, Police Officer, or other person whose bonafide duty is to execute process, make arrests, or aid in conserving the public peace at the location of the offense charged. If the evidence in this case leaves in your mind a reasonable doubt on this issue then you must find the defendant not guilty, (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Henderson““[T]he scope of our review extends only to a determination of whether there is sufficient substantial evidence to support the verdict. It is not our function or prerogative to weigh the evidence to determine whether the charge has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt; that is a function of the jury.” State v. Achter, 514 S.W.2d 825, 826 (Mo.App.1974).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Riley
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.