State v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
110 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably State v. Stepter (1990), Love v. State (1984)
110 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. Howell · State v. Moton · State v. Hill · State v. Coffman · State v. Gullett
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court shall not be obligated to charge the jury with respect to an included offense unless there is a basis for a verdict acquitting the defendant of the offense charged and convicting him of the included offense.””
10 later decisions quote this exact passage““When the same conduct of a person may establish the commission of more than one offense he may be prosecuted for each such offense. He may not, however, be convicted of more than one offense if [[Image here]] (4) The offense is defined as a continuing course of conduct and the person’s course of conduct was uninterrupted, unless the law provides that specific periods of such conduct constitute separate offenses.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Section 556.046.2 limits the requirement of instructing down to those instances where there is some affirmative evidence of a lack of an essential element of the higher offense which would not only authorize acquittal of the higher but sustain a conviction of the less-er_” State v. Olson, 636 S.W.2d 318, 322 (Mo. banc 1982). (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith · State v. Arbuckle
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.