Vasil v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1994
15 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 Taylor v. Louisiana · Proffitt v. Florida · Wingo v. Wedding · 283 So. 2d 1 - State v. Dixon · Alvord v. Florida
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a person kills another in trying to do or commit any rape, or while escaping from the immediate scene of such crime, the killing is in perpetration of or in the attempt to perpetrate such crime. It is the crime of rape to ravish or carnally know a female person of the age of eleven years or more by force and against her will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCrae v. Wainwright
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.