State v. Helms’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably State v. Williams (1992), State v. Williams (2014)
28 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 Kennedy v. Powell · Young v. Harper · In Re the Attorney General, Stephan · State v. Haislip · United States v. Ellenbogen
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.
“indecent liberties with a child is a 'more specific' statute than rape and, therefore, indecent liberties with a child provides the exclusive basis upon which he may be charged, convicted, and punished. [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Euler“the rule that a more specific statute should prevail over the general statute is merely a rule of interpretation which is used to determine which statute the legislature intended to be applied in a particular case”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Euler“[a]lthough both crimes may be coincidentally present in the same set of factual events, the two crimes are directed at different actions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Euler
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.