State v. Heisinger’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably Hartpence v. Youth Forestry Camp (1982), In Re the Expungement of Records Related to Oliver (2012)
2 district · 39 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Pointer v. Texas · Leary v. United States · Coleman v. Alabama · Tot v. United States
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.
““Rape is an act of sexual penetration accomplished with any person under any one or more of the following circumstances: [[Image here]] (2) Where the victim is incapable, because of physical or mental incapacity, of giving consent to such act; a person sixteen years of age or less shall be presumed incapable of consenting to such acts; . . . ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Ellefson · State v. Watson“A statutory presumption is a rule of evidence and must be carefully distinguished from statutory provisions which create substantive law, as the former provision had done..”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ellefson
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.