Richardson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably 201 Ga. App. 238 - Gregg v. State (1991), Powell v. State (1998)
41 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 Johnson v. State · Gibbons v. State · De Palma v. State · Cuzzort v. State · Smith 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.
“[s]exual acts directed to children are, in law, forcible and against the will,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The pattern of sexual exploitation presented in this case was also, as a matter of law, forcible and against the will, because of the step-daughter's age at onset, and because of her familial relationship.”
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.