State v. Overland’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 1975
1 federal appellate · 10 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. Blaine · State v. Stone
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whatever may have been the rule prior to the adoption of the criminal code, it is now the law that, when a party accused of crime offers himself as a witness, it may be shown that he has been previously convicted of a crime. This question is settled by the statute (Bern. & Bal. Code, § 2290), and by at least two decisions of this court based thereon. State v. Blaine, 64 Wash. 122 , 116 Pac. 660 ; State v. Stone, 66 Wash. 625 , 120 Pac. 76 . “Nor does the statute make or retain the old distinctions between proofs of misdemeanors and of felonies. Conviction of a crime may be shown, and a crime, by the terms of the statute, ‘is any act or omission forbidden by the law and punishable on conviction by death, imprisonment, fine or other penal discipline.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Turner
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.