State v. Cavett’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 1990
5 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 State v. Nelson · State v. Crawford · Gaunt v. State · State v. . McDuffie · State v. Nelson
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Without evidence other than of the intercourse and that the parties were not husband and wife, the prima facie case for the state is complete. ‘The single state is, however, the natural, and, during early life, the only possible one; nor is there any period at which it is necessarily terminated or merged into marriage. In the absence, therefore, of testimony tending to the contrary, the presumption is that the celibacy which existed during [pubescence] continues.’ Once it appears that the parties are not married to each other, the state is not in the first instance required to go further and prove that the woman is unmarried.” (Authorities cited.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Datka v. State
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.