Estes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently November 2008 · most notably Bowen v. State (1975), Miller v. State (1971)
3 federal appellate · 38 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 Glover v. State · Schlegel v. State · Borolos v. State · Murray v. State · Sanders 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“abominable and detestable crime against nature”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Linder v. State · Dixon v. State“"The case of Glover v. State, supra , as heretofore stated, merely holds that the first clause within the sodomy statute, supra, includes the offense of copulation of the male organ of one person with the mouth or the anus of the other. No authority has been cited nor has any come to our attention which has defined or described the offense with which we are here concerned, in any other manner. " (Emphasis added.) 244 Ind. at 695 , 195 N.E.2d at 473 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dixon v. State““The word ‘sodomy’, more fully described as the ‘abominable and detestable crime against nature with mankind or beast,’ as the term is used in the first clause of § 10-4221, supra, when practiced between members of the human species, has a clear and long established meaning. It means the copulation of the male organ of one with either the mouth or anus of the other.””
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.