Cleaveland v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 1978
9 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 O'Boyle v. State · Rice v. State · Hofer v. State · Ganzel v. State · 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While it is the established law of this state that a person may be convicted of rape on the uncorroborated testimony of a prosecutrix if the jury is satisfied as to the truth of her testimony beyond a reasonable doubt, all courts recognize the obvious danger of convicting on such uncorroborated testimony. [Citing cases.] “As has been said, the ‘accusation is one easily made, hard to be proved, and still harder to be disproved by one ever so innocent.’ Courts are therefore reluctant to sustain such convictions unless the testimony and surrounding- circumstances are quite clear and decisive.’1”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schuh 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.