State v. O'Brien’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 1974
24 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. Shiflett · State v. Cox
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever an exception is contained in the section defining an offense, and constitutes a part of the description of the offense sought to be charged, the indictment must negative the exception, otherwise no offense is charged. [State v. Meek, 70 Mo. 357 ; State v. Shiflett, 20 Mo. 415 .] But where, as in the case at bar, the section which defines the offense contains a proviso exempting a class therein referred to, from the operation of the statute, it is unnecessary to negative the proviso, but the exemption therein contained must be insisted on by way of defense, by the party accused. [State v. Cox, 32 Mo. 566 ; State v. Shiflett, 20 Mo. 417 , and authorities there cited.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Humfeld
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.