Rice v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 1977
16 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 People v. Benson · State v. Knapp · McQuirk v. State · Strang v. People · Boddie v. State
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... At the trial the defendant's counsel propounded the following question in cross-examination of the prosecutrix, to wit: `Did you ever have intercourse with this defendant, or any other man, previous to last Monday morning?' The time inquired about was that at which the offense was committed, as shown by her examination in chief. The ruling of the court sustaining an objection to this question is assigned as error. The assignment is not well taken. The avowed object of the question was to impeach the chastity of the prosecutrix, and to show a probability of her consent to carnal intercourse with the defendant. If the question had been confined to the matter of acts of intercourse between the prosecutrix and the defendant, it would have been admissible, but she could not be interrogated as to such acts with other persons than the defendant. On a trial for rape, the character of the prosecutrix for chastity, or the want of it, is competent evidence as bearing upon the probability of her consent to defendant's act; but the impeachment of her character in this respect must be confined to evidence of her general reputation, except that she may be interrogated as to her previous intercourse with the defendant, or as to promiscuous intercourse with men, or common prostitution. ..." (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Considering the line of defense adopted by the defendant, no injury could have been done him by ruling out this testimony. The only purpose for which such testimony was offered was to show a probability of consent on the part of the prosecutrix to the act of the defendant. The defense was not based upon any theory of eonsent to the act, but upon a denial by the defendant that he had ever had any carnal intercourse whatever with the girl.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Flores
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.