State v. Denton’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably State v. Williams (1982), State v. Foggy (1966)
62 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 Jackson v. Denno · State v. Mandel · State v. Sowards · State v. Rivera · State v. Sorrell
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ # 16. The absence of consent is necessary for the crime of rape (sexual assault). Where the resistance is genuine and vigorous in the beginning, if the physical contact arouses the passion of the woman to the extent that she willingly yields herself to the sexual act before penetration has been accomplished, it is not rape (sexual assault). # 17. In the absence of intimidation, the female must resist to the utmost of her ability and such resistance must continue until the offense is complete, or it is not rape (sexual assault).””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Reinhold · State v. Taylor““Rape in the first degree is an act of sexual intercourse with a woman, not the wife of the perpetrator, under either of the following circumstances: A. Where the woman resists, but her resistance is overcome by force or violence; or B. Where the woman is prevented from resisting by threats of immediate and great bodily harm accompanied by the apparent ability to carry out those threats. Consent induced by force, or fear and intimidation, does not amount to consent in law, and does not prevent the intercourse from being rape. When a woman reasonably determines that she cannot resist without peril to her life or safety, no resistance is required, and if she submits to an act of sexual intercourse, induced by fear that it is necessary to save her from violence or death, her conduct under such circumstances does not constitute consent to the act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Reinhold““ * * * [W]here a court is given the discretion to fix a period of years to life, it can take as the prescribed maximum such period of years as it deems proper as a base maximum and impose a sentence for the attempt at not to exceed one-half such base maximum.” State v. Mandel, supra, 78 Ariz. at 231 , 278 P.2d at 417 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams
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.