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← 342 Mo. 975 - State v. King

State v. King’s Empirical Analysis

1938

Citation profile

97
cited by 97 later decisions
3
states following
May 2018
most recently cited

97 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably State v. Kornegger (1953), State v. Richetti (1938)

97 state decisions

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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 Norris v. State of Alabama · People v. . Molineux · Seth Carter v. State of Texas · State v. Hyde · State v. Shawley

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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “at least unless the testimony of the prosecutrix is contradictory and in conflict with physical facts, the surrounding circumstances and ordinary experience.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “almost universally ... allowed in prosecutions for crimes involving the sexual relation, such as adultery, incest, lewdness, rape, seduction, and sodomy.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “it makes no difference whether force was used or not, since carnal knowledge of a female child under the age of 16 years is rape.”
    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.