Rhynes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 1992
13 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 Ward v. State · Nilsson v. State · Johnson v. State · 150 Tex. Crim. 57 - Lynch v. State · 134 Tex. Crim. 423 - Calhoun 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although penetration must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt it does not have to be of any particular depth. Any penetration, no matter how slight, is sufficient to satisfy the requirements of Article 1187, Vernon’s Ann.P.C. See Calhoun v. State, 134 Tex.Cr.R. 423 , 115 S.W.2d 965 ; Lynch v. State, 150 Tex.Cr.R. 57 , 199 S.W.2d 780 . ‘Penetration between the labia of the female’s private parts by the male organ of the defendant is sufficient although the vagina was not entered or an act of intercourse was never completed.’ 4 Branch’s Ann.P.C., 2nd ed„ Sec. 1977, p. 301.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams 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.