460 So. 2d 232 - Pittman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2006
1 district · 9 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 Gibson v. Gaines
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is clear that the force required to consummate rape in the first degree is necessarily relative. The force required to consummate the crime against a mature female is not the standard for application in a case in which the alleged victim is a child.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Powe v. State · JAP v. State“[p]hysical force that overcomes earnest resistance or a threat, express or implied, that places a person in fear of immediate death or serious physical injury to himself or another person.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Powe v. State · Lee v. State“Either you will roll over or I will tie you down.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. JAP v. State
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.