People v. De Stefano’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “While recognizing the sanctity of marriage, modern decisional law also recognizes that the right of a wife [or husband] to supremacy over her [or his] own body is paramount to her [or his] spouse's desire. Indeed her [or his] right to individual autonomy . . . [is] but a part of the more comprehensive right to bodily integrity.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 494 So. 2d 819 - Williams v. State

2. “a husband a right to control his wife's bodily integrity.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Weishaupt v. Commonwealth

3. “the property of either her father or her husband.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Weishaupt v. Commonwealth