5 Haw. App. 659 - State v. Gonsalves’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2013
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 Beausoliel v. United States · United States v. Nick · Asato v. Furtado · 1 Haw. App. 625 - State v. Liuafi · State v. Brighter
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Sexual intercourse with a mentally defective person is characterized as rape under the principle that "consent given by one who is mentally inadequate is no consent at all.” Thus many statutes, like Hawaii's [Hawai'i’s], omit the requirement of force. Sexual intercourse with a mentally defective person is all that is required for a conviction under HRS § 707-732(1).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Without the ability to comprehend these factors, the victim cannot be said to be capable of appraising the nature of the act. She would see only the shiny wrappings on Pandora’s box, and none of the contents. She would be truly, in the old-fashioned phrase, taken advantage of.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jackson 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.