State v. Rusk’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 district · 105 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably 42 Cal. 3d 284 - People v. Barnes (1986), Merzbacher v. State (1997)
2 district · 105 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Delli Paoli v. United States · Pope v. Nebraska · Flick v. United States · Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Oklahoma Retail Grocers Ass'n
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crimes beyond a reasonable doubt.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) What constitutes.—person is guilty of rape in the first degree if the person engages in vaginal intercourse: (1) With another person by force or threat of force against the will and without the consent of the other person....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Force is an essential element of the crime [of rape] and to justify a conviction, the evidence must warrant a conclusion either that the victim resisted and her resistance was overcome by force or that she was prevented from resisting by threats to her safety. But no particular amount of force, either actual or constructive, is required to constitute rape. Necessarily that fact must depend upon the prevailing circumstances. As in this case force may exist without violence. If the acts and threats of the defendant were reasonably calculated to create in the mind of the victim— having regard to the circumstances in which she was placed—a real apprehension, due to fear, of imminent bodily harm, serious enough to impair or overcome her will to resist, then such acts and threats are the equivalent of force.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.