State v. Locklear’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably State v. Alston (1983), State v. Thomas (1991)
68 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 · State v. Powell · Flick v. United States · State v. Jones · Williams v. North Carolina
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The evidence is to be considered in the light most favorable to the State; the State is entitled to every reasonable intendment and every reasonable inference to be drawn therefrom; contradictions and discrepancies are for the jury to resolve and do not warrant dismissal; and all of the evidence actually admitted, whether competent or incompetent, which is favorable to the State is to be considered by the court in ruling on the motion.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. LeDuc · State v. Stanley“`[ f ] ear of serious bodily harm reasonably engendered by threats or other actions of a defendant and which causes the victim to consent to the sexual act takes the place of force and negates the consent.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]t common law, fear, fright, or coercion could take the place of actual physical force, or, as stated by our Supreme Court: `A threat of serious bodily harm, which reasonably induces fear thereof, constitutes the requisite force and negates consent.'”
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.