State v. Combs’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 2016
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Lawrence · State v. Ashe · State v. Cummings · State v. Hartness · State v. Rich
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person is guilty of rape of a child if the person is at least 18 years of age and engages in vaginal intercourse with a victim who is a child under the age of 13 years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Vaginal intercourse is defined as 'penetration, however slight, of the female sex organ by the male sex organ.'”
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.