People v. Stratton’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably 55 Cal. 2d 328 - People v. Burton (1961), 69 Cal. 2d 44 - People v. Baker (1968)
49 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 Thayer v. Thayer · Hoke v. St. Louis, Keokuk, & Northern Railway Co. · State v. Markins · Porath v. State · State v. Bridgman
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Persons, being within the degrees of consanguinity within which marriages are declared by law to be incestuous and void * * * who commit fornication or adultery * * * are punishable * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the prosecutrix, being of the legal age of consent, consents to the incestuous intercourse, unquestionably she is particeps criminis, and her testimony, like that of any other accomplice, uncorroborated, is insufficient to uphold a conviction. [Citation.] But if, upon the other hand, she is the victim of force, or fraud, or undue influence, or is too young to be able to give legal assent, so that she does not willfully and willingly join in the incestuous act, she cannot be regarded as an accomplice. [Citation.] In this case the instructions fairly left this matter open to the determination of the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The court instructs you that the consent of both parties is not essential to the crime, of incest. If the party charged have sexual intercourse Avith a female related to him within the degree of consanguinity within which marriage is prohibited, he is guilty of the crime, of incest, whether the intercourse was with or without the consent of such female.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Rodríguez
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.