Crosswell v. People’s Empirical Analysis
1865
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 1972
18 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This statute does not change the nature of the offense as it stood at the common law, nor does it describe two distinct offenses, but the carnal knowledge of the female child under the age of ten years is held to be rape, on the ground that, from immaturity and want of understanding, the child must be deemed incapable of assenting, and the act presumed to be the result of force.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Perry
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.