Ganzel v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1989
8 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 Wilcox v. State
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true that convictions for sexual crimes must rest very largely upon the testimony of the complaining witness, as direct corroborating testimony is well-nigh impossible to procure. However, it is always legitimate to consider whether the subsequent conduct of the complaining witness is the usual and natural conduct of an outraged woman as bearing upon the credibility of her direct testimony.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““A sentence of seven years in the penitentiary upon this evidence must give anxiety to any one having any responsibility for the consequences visited upon the defendant. It is true that this court has held many times that a conviction for the crime of rape may be sustained upon the uncorroborated testimony of the complaining witness. It does not follow, however, that a conviction upon such testimony is to be arbitrarily sustained under all circumstances.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rice 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.