State v. Zeh’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
171 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 178 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Short (2011), State v. Green (2000)
171 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 Peter J. Migliorini v. New York · In re Disbarment of Allison · 55 Ill. 2d 443 - People v. Peter · United States v. Brown · Hopkinson 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 178 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“substantial impairment must be established by demonstrating a present reduction, diminution or decrease in the victim's ability, either to appraise the nature of his conduct or to control his conduct. This is distinguishable from a general deficit in ability to cope, which condition might be inferred from or evidenced by a general intelligence or I.Q. report.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage“[n]o person shall engage in sexual conduct with another, not the spouse of the offender”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“must be given the meaning generally understood in common usage.”
5 later decisions 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.