475 So. 2d 893 - Richards v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2016
10 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 State v. Jones · State v. Dizon · Salsman v. Commonwealth · 320 Pa. Super. 265 - Commonwealth v. Biggs · 460 So. 2d 232 - Pittman 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“), was enacted to cover the present situation, as was the crime of sexual abuse in the first degree, as defined in § 13A-6-66(a)(3) (”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The recorded testimony of the victim indicates that she asked to be `put down' and requested that he not continue his actions. These pleas went unheeded and appellant persisted in his actions. We consider that the victim's actions, under the circumstances, constitute `a genuine physical effort ... to discourage and prevent her assailant from accomplishing his intended purpose. '" Richards, 475 So.2d at 896 (emphasis added).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[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.”
2 later decisions 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.