White v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 1954
5 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The decisions on this point have .. not been uniform, but the drift of the , latter decisions in both the English and American courts is to hold that nothing more than res in re, without regard to the extent of the penetration or emission, is all that is required.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Massey““No assault and battery is charged against the defendant, except as a part of his assault to commit the crime of sodomy. This is the offense sought to be punished, and we think the court did not err in failing to instruct the jury for any other offense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Nelson
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.