Warren v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Childs v. State (1987), Powell v. State (1998)
25 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 Bouie v. City of Columbia · Trammel v. United States · Zablocki v. Redhail · Coker v. Georgia · Rose v. Locke
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“but a husband cannot be guilty of a rape committed by himself upon his lawful wife, for by their mutual matrimonial consent and contract the wife hath given up herself in this kind unto her husband which she cannot retreat.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the subsequent marriage doctrine of English law, wherein the perpetrator could, by marrying his victim, avoid rape charges.” Id. 336 S.E.2d at 223 . The court posited that the”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lane v. State“`imprisonment at labor in the penitentiary for and during the natural life of the person convicted of this de[te]stable crime.' [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Powell v. State
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.