State v. O'CONNELL’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably State v. Milliorn (1990), Jones v. Jerrison (1994)
3 federal appellate · 39 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 South Dakota v. Opperman · Colorado v. Bertine · Green v. Missouri · State v. Brown · State v. Johns
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That Jerome Stein, in violation of Section 570.120, RSMo, committed the Class D felony of passing bad checks, punishable upon conviction under Sections 558.011.1(4) and 560.011, RSMo, in that on or about Thursday, September 7, 1989, at approximately 7:00 p.m. at 111 Westport Plaza, in the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri, Jerome Stein, with the purpose to defraud, issued and/or passed a check in the amount of $11,600.00 drawn upon Commerce Bank, dated September 7, 1989, payable to Isa-dore Fendelman, knowing that it would not be paid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stein“The purpose of an indictment or information is to inform the accused of charges against him so that he may prepare an adequate defense and to prevent retrial on the same charges in case of an acquittal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rohra“As a general rule, it is enough to charge the offense in the language of the statute alleged to be violated if the statute states all the constituent elements of the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rohra
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.