Deas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Simmons v. State (1939), 520 So. 2d 1 - Robinson v. State (1988)
58 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 New York Cent Co v. Johnson · People v. Wells · People v. Malkin · State v. Patterson · Cook v. Commonwealth
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... to abolish the distinction as to sex, and thereupon to provide for the protection of the chastity of all unmarried persons, whether male or female, under the age of eighteen years when of previous chaste character.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““When it is made to appear that a prosecuting officer has overstepped the bonds of that propriety and fairness which should characterize the conduct of a state’s counsel in the prosecution of a criminal case, or where a prosecuting attorney’s argument to the jury is undignified and intemperate, and contains aspersions, improper insinuations, and assertions of matters not in evidence, or consists of an appeal to prejudice or sympathy calculated to unduly influence a trial jury, the trial judge should not only sustain an objection at the time, to such improper conduct when objection is offered, but should so affirmatively rebuke the offending prosecuting officer as to impress upon the jury the gross impropriety of being influenced by improper arguments. . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blanco v. State“designed to protect the youth of this State of both sexes from the initial violation of their actual condition of sexual chastity, rather than from the consequences of their subsequent voluntary indulgence in unmorality.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.