State v. Dudley’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 186 N.C. App. 308 - State v. Gobal (2007), State v. Pakulski (1990)
49 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · State v. Hewett · State v. Stanley · State v. Belton · State v. Freeland
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally rape is not a continuous offense, but each act of intercourse constitutes a distinct and separate offense.”
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.