State v. Whittington’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably State v. Locklear (1998), State v. Johnson (1987)
54 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 State v. Fulcher · State v. Irwin · State v. Sturdivant · State v. Gardner · State v. Blackstock
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) A person is guilty of a sexual offense in the first degree if the person engages in a sexual act: (2) With another person by force and against the will of the other person, and: a. Employs or displays a dangerous or deadly weapon or an article which the other person reasonably believes to be a dangerous or deadly weapon; . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Removal of [the victim] from her automobile to the location where the rape occurred was not such asportation as was inherent in the commission of the crime of rape. Rather it was a separate course of conduct designed to remove her from the view of a passerby who might have hindered the commission of the crime. To this extent, the action of removal was taken for the purpose of facilitating the felony of first-degree rape.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Boyce“[DJefendant named above unlawfully, willfully and feloniously did kidnap Daphne Shay Lane, a person who had attained the age of 16 years, by unlawfully confining, restraining, or removing her from one place to another without her consent; and for the purpose of terrorizing her. Daphne Shay Lane was not released by the defendant in a safe place, and was sexually assaulted.”
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.