State v. . Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 1984 · most notably State v. Overman (1967), State v. Arnold (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.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Rape is the carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will.’ * * * ‘By force,’ however, is not necessarily meant by actual physical force. * * * Fear, fright, or duress, may take the place of force. [Citation.] The case is replete with evidence that the prosecutrix submitted ‘on account of fear’ and after the defendant had threatened to kill her or to do her great bodily harm, if she resisted. Indeed, the circumstances themselves were terrifying. The prosecutrix and her companion had been held up and robbed in the middle of the night by two strange men whom they regarded as desperadoes.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Overman“in such place and position that resistance would have been useless,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Thompson
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.