United States v. Strode’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2016
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
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 845 · 10 U.S.C. § 920 · 10 U.S.C. § 925
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mistake of fact is available to a military accused who is charged with committing indecent acts with a child under the age of 16 if he had an honest and reasonable belief as to the age of the person and if the acts would otherwise be lawful were the prosecutrix age 16 or older.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“An act that may not be indecent between consenting adults may well be made indecent because it is between an adult and a child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“intent to arouse, appeal to, or gratify the lust, passions or sexual desires of the accused, the victim, or both.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.