State v. Halbert’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 1910
2 federal appellate · 7 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 Marston v. Humes
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ If any person ravish and carnally know any female of the age of twelve years or more,’ by force and against her will, or carnally know and abuse any female child under the age of twelve years, he shall be punished hy imprisonment in the penitentiary for life or any term of years.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Nolan
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.