State v. Ruth’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1957
10 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 People of the State of N.Y. v. . Dohring · Turner v. People · Commonwealth v. McDonald · English v. Sprague
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"There must be actual physical resistance. The female, when assailed, must persist, though she knows resistance will be vain. She must fight, though she may believe this course will bring upon her other and perhaps greater violence. She must cry aloud, though she knows no relief is near. She must arouse her sleeping infant sisters to be witnesses to the outrage, though she knows they can render her no aid.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Moore““To make the crime hinge on the uttermost exertion the woman was physically capable of making would be a reproach to the law and to common sense.” (p. 591.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. McLemore
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.