State v. Olson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that sentencing “within the limits prescribed by the legislature is purely a judicial function”
• stating that “the legislature may restrict the exercise of judicial discretion in sentencing . . . by providing for mandatory sentences”
• stating that power to define criminal conduct and fix punishment is vested in the legislature, while “imposition of the sentence within the limits prescribed by the legislature is purely a judicial function”
• stating that imposing a sentence within legislative limits is “purely a judicial function”
• stating once the legislature has defined the range of punishments for a particular offense, it cannot “condition the imposition of the sentence by the court upon the prior approval of the prosecutor”
• stating once the legislature has defined the range of punishments for a particular offense, it cannot \condition the imposition of the sentence by the court upon the prior approval of the prosecutor\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

102 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Moylan v. Moylan
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1986-04-11· cited 229×
• State v. Trott
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1983-09-16· cited 145×
• Billis v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1990-10-05· cited 142×
• State v. Shattuck
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2005-10-06· cited 124×
• State v. Misquadace
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2002-05-09· cited 115×
• State v. Ford
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1995-09-01· cited 110×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2003-11-06· cited 75×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1994-03-25· cited 74×
• State v. Pflepsen
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1999-04-01· cited 73×
• State v. Soto
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1985-12-06· cited 72×
• Chambers v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2013-05-31· cited 70×
• State v. Stratton
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1985-09-20· cited 69×
• State v. Lindsey
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2001-08-23· cited 66×
• State v. Colvin
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2002-06-13· cited 64×
• State v. Krotzer
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1996-05-23· cited 63×
• Kaiser v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2002-04-18· cited 53×
• State v. Heywood
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1983-09-16· cited 50×
• State v. Cox
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2011-06-15· cited 49×
• State v. Barker
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2005-11-17· cited 39×
• State v. Alvarez
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1991-02-14· cited 39×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. Tenorio
  California Supreme Court· 1970-09-01· cited 209×
• People v. Navarro
  California Supreme Court· 1972-05-23· cited 185×
• People v. Superior Court (On Tai Ho)
  California Supreme Court· 1974-03-27· cited 180×
• Esteybar v. Municipal Court
  California Supreme Court· 1971-06-22· cited 121×
• State v. LeCompte
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1981-11-16· cited 60×
• State v. Osterloh
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1978-12-22· cited 49×
• Head v. Special School District No. 1
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1970-12-09· cited 46×
• Lewis v. Legislative Body of 91st Congress of United States
  Supreme Court· 1971-10-19· cited 37×
• State v. Haas
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1968-05-03· cited 28×
• State on Behalf of Forslund v. Bronson
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1981-01-16· cited 25×
• Erickson v. SUNSET MEMORIAL PARK ASSN., INC.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1961-03-24· cited 19×
• Grudnosky v. Bislow
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1958-03-07· cited 18×
• Minneapolis Federation of Teachers, Local No. 59 v. Spannaus
  Supreme Court· 1971-10-19· cited 18×
• State v. Jonason
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1980-03-11· cited 16×