Cokeley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2021
4 federal appellate · 17 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 Berna v. State · Clayborn v. State · Yacono v. State · Wilson v. State · Browning 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The main basis of our [Clayborn ] decision was that two separate crimes of rape exist: rape by sexual intercourse and rape by deviate activity. We said “... two different crimes were involved ... and the essential elements of the crimes differ.” We were wrong in that regard and overrule Clayborn v. State....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. Kassulke“(a) A person commits rape if he engages in sexual intercourse or deviate sexual activity with another person: (3) Who is less than fourteen (14) years of age.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Midgett v. State“[i]n our most recent decision [regarding] this statute, we clearly rejected the rationale in Clayborn.”
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.