Connell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 1988 · most notably State v. Robbins (1943), State v. Lair (1973)
27 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 Deal v. State · Glover v. State · Pettit v. State · State v. Murry · Chappelle 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The appellant’s objections as a whole are built around and based upon a narrow definition of sodomy as given by some courts, but the better reasoning will be found in the authorities which give to that word a broader construction. If the appellant were right in his contention that sodomy can be committed only between persons of the same sex, then he would be entitled to a release. Holding, as this court does, that the term includes a number of relations described in 58 C. J., supra, and other authorities, the appellant is without any foundation for a demand for a reversal of this cause.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Murray v. State““The statute in this state defines the crime as ‘the abominable and detestable crime against nature with mankind or beast.’ This court has held in common with the courts of other jurisdictions under similar statutes, that the statutory definition includes both common-law sodomy and acts of a bestial character whereby degraded and perverted sexual desires are sought to be gratified contrary to nature.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Murray v. State““... Sodomy is a crime the meaning of which is well known, and, as many courts have stated, its nature is too disgusting to be further defined. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.