O'Boyle v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 1979
15 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 Strang v. People · Commonwealth v. McDonald · Bohlmann v. State
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To authorize a conviction of rape, the jury must believe that the offense was accomplished by force, and against the will of the prosecutrix, and that there was the utmost reluctance and resistance on her part, or that her will was overcome by force or fear of the defendant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hoffman““Where the testimony of the prosecuting witness bears upon its face evidence of its unreliability, to sustain a conviction there should be corroboration by other evidence as to the principal facts relied on to constitute the crime.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rice v. State
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.