State v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"Every person who shall be convicted of rape, either by carnally and unlawfully knowing any female child under the age of sixteen years, or by forcibly ravishing any woman of the age of sixteen years or upward * * *."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Cochrell · In re Care & Treatment of Gormon

2. ““[I]f substantial evidence shows the crime charged was consummated the defendant cannot be convicted of a mere attempt. He cannot go to the jury on a charge so light in the face of a prima facie case showing the graver offense was committed, [citation omitted] but must take the hazard of the severer, greater punishment, as in the case of rape.””

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

3. ““No person shall be convicted of an assault with intent to commit a crime, or of any other attempt to commit any offense, when it shall appear that the crime intended or the offense attempted was perpetrated by such person at the time of such assault or in pursuance of such attempt.””

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