Critchlow v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 2004 · most notably Powell v. State (1998), Carroll v. State (1976)
51 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 Wilson v. State · Beard v. State · Shipman v. State · Brown v. State · Stinson 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The various acts which are considered to be sodomy include the act of fellatio, which was alleged in this case.. .We, once again, hold the statute is constitutional and the crime described in the statute is applicable in the case at bar. . . .””
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.