State v. Meloon’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
3
states following
November 1982
most recently cited
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Drake · State v. O'BRIEN · In re W. E. P. · State v. Nelson · State v. Davis
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]y failing to object at a time when the instructions, if improper, could have been corrected by the court, he has waived any right to have the question considered now.... We find no reason in this case to waive the usual rule that exceptions not properly taken are waived.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martineau v. Perrin“The potential pregnancy of the female and the remote contingency of the older female seducing the under-age male with harmful results justify the legislative restriction of the crime to the male sex.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Meloon v. Helgemoe“reasonable and not constitutionally suspect”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Meloon v. Helgemoe
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.