64 Okla. Crim. 430 - State v. Sowards’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 1996
18 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 Ex Rel. Barney v. Hawkins · Attorney General v. Tillinghast · State Ex Rel. Burns v. Linn, District Judge · Edwards v. Childers · Daily Leader v. Cameron, Auditor
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The indictment or information must charge but one offense, but where the same acts may constitute different offenses, or the proof may be uncertain as to which of two or more offenses the accused may be guilty of, the different offenses may be set forth in separate counts in the same indictment or information and the accused may be convicted of either offense, and the court or jury trying the cause may find all or either of the persons guilty of either of the offenses charged, and the same offense may be set forth in different forms or degrees under different counts; and where the offense may be committed by the use of different means, the means may be alleged in the alternative in the same count.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bradley v. State““A ‘public office’ is a right, authority and duty created and conferred by law, by which for a given period, either fixed by law or enduring at the pleasure of the creating power, an individual is invested with some portion of the sovereign functions of the government, to be exercised by him for the benefit of the public, and the individual so invested is a ‘public officer.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The prohibition in Oklahoma Constitution, Art. 7, § 12, against the' exercise by the county court of jurisdiction in actions against officers for misconduct in office, includes all actions against such officers for misconduct, and jurisdiction over such proceedings is in the district court. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sanders v. Oliphant
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.