People v. Gould’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2007 · most notably HealthONE v. Rodriguez ex rel. Rodriguez (2002), State v. Rivera (1980)
4 federal appellate · 28 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 Reed v. Reed · Eisenstadt v. Baird · West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish · Norvell v. State of Illinois · State v. Kelly
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the instant case, we believe that the need for treating males and females differently in enacting the rape statute is clearly reasonable. The statute satisfied the real, if not compelling need to protect potential female victims from rape by males. However, for obvious physiological as well as sociological reasons we perceive no need by males for protection against females from rape which would be sufficient to demand legislation attention. The fact that the law does not provide the same protection to males as it does to females does not deny the male perpetrator the equal protection of the law. The classification is logical and rational. The individual’s, as well as the government’s interests are apparent. We do not find the statutes constitutionally infirm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“C.R.S. 1963, 40-3-40!. Rape. (1) Any male who has sexual intercourse with a female person not his spouse commits rape, if: (d) the female is less than 16 years old and the offender is at least two years older than the female.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Salinas
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.