State v. Morales’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably 118 Wash. 2d 649 - State v. Collicott (1992), State v. Norton (1982)
43 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 34 Ill. 2d 516 - The PEOPLE v. Braden · State v. Martinez · State v. Hagen · State v. Partlow · State v. Erickson
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this case the rape was, as the trial court noted, typical in some ways. Indeed, in the sense that only vaginal penetration was involved and not any other forms of penetration — such as fellatio, cunnilingus or anal penetration — this case was not as serious as many cases, which often seem to involve two or more kinds of penetration.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gettel · State v. Edwards
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.