State v. Fletcher’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably State v. Phillips (1991), State v. Chandler (1989)
2 district · 47 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 Cass v. United States · State v. Ahearn · State v. Smith · State v. Etheridge · State v. Pinch
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.
“'[v]aginal intercourse is penetration, however slight, of the female sex organ by the male sex organ. The actual emission of semen is not necessary. It is not necessary that the vagina be entered or that the hymen be ruptured. The entering of the vulva or labia is sufficient.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) General rule. — Every person is competent to be a witness except as otherwise provided in these rules. (b) Disqualification of witness in general. —A person is disqualified to testify as a witness when the court determines that he is (1) incapable of expressing himself concerning the matter as to be understood, either directly or through interpretation by one who can understand him, or (2) incapable of understanding the duty of a witness to tell the truth.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Liles“was substantial evidence from which the jury could find that defendant had vaginal intercourse with the child victim, where anatomically correct dolls were used to identify the positions of a”
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.