175 W. Va. 274 - State v. Hartshorn’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
July 1991
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 162 W. Va. 602 - State v. Frazier · 164 W. Va. 588 - State v. Ball · State v. McKee
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) A person is guilty of sexual assault in the first degree when: (1)He engages in sexual intercourse with another person by forcible compulsion; and (1) He inflicts serious bodily injury upon anyone; or (ii) He employed a deadly weapon in commission of the crime; or (iii) The victim was not a voluntary social companion of the actor on the occasion of the crime; or (2) He engages in sexual intercourse with another person who is incapable of consent because he is physically helpless; or (3) He, being fourteen years old or more, engages in sexual intercourse with another person who is incapable of consent because he is less than eleven years old.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(a) Physical force that overcomes such earnest resistance as might reasonably be expected under the circumstances: or”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.