Carroll v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 state decisions

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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The rape victim must resist to a degree which would indicate the act was against her will. However, the resistance necessary to be used by a woman allegedly raped to prevent the sexual act need not be the use of all the physical force of which she is capable, but it is sufficient if she, in good faith, uses reasonable resistance.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stowers v. State

2. “the required resistance need not take the form of an actual attempt to escape or to fight off the attacker in every conceivable set of circumstances.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 169 Ind. App. 287 - Buchanan v. State