State v. O'Shea’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 1969
9 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. Reddick
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The requirement of section 239 of the criminal code that the jury shall specify in their verdict of what degree of the offense they find the defendant guilty has caused very nice and embarrassing questions to arise in a number of cases; but it may now be deemed the law of this state, well settled by a line of decisions, that the degree of offense of which the conviction is had must be determined from the verdict itself, and that the addition of the words ‘as charged and set forth in the information’ is insufficient to show that the jury intended to find the defendant guilty of every element of the principal crime charged in the information.” (Page 596.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ireland
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.