State v. Tucker’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 1990
22 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 Crescent City Live Stock & Slaughter-House Co. v. Larrieux · Esty v. Clark · Kimball v. Story · Bolen v. People · 41 W. Va. 599 - State v. Pennington
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"if any uncle or aunt shall have sexual intercourse with his or her niece, or nephew, having knowledge of his or her relationship, or if any nephew or niece shall have sexual intercourse with his or her aunt or uncle, such nephew or niece being over the age of sixteen years and having knowledge of his or her relationship, he or she shall be guilty of incest...."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Buckles“It is, of course, within the power of the Legislature ... to punish carnal intercourse as incestuous, between persons related only by affinity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Buckles“confuse parental and filial duties and affections, and corrupt the moral sentiments of mankind.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Buckles
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.