McCall v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2009 · most notably Coles v. Peyton (1968), Spencer v. Commonwealth (1989)
5 federal appellate · 18 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 Bailey v. Commonwealth · Spratley v. Commonwealth · The People v. Burke · King v. Commonwealth
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If any person carnally know a female of sixteen years of age or more against her will, by force, or carnally know a female child under that age * * *, he shall, in the discretion of the court or jury be punished with death, or confinement in the penitentiary for life, or for any term not less than five years. * * *”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is universally held that under an indictment charging statutory rape of a child . . . the prosecution must prove that there has been an actual penetration to some extent of the male sexual organ into the female sexual organ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.