500 So. 2d 100 - Mims v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2007
7 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 465 So. 2d 1211 - Hutto v. State · Bush v. State · 440 So. 2d 1237 - Giles v. State · Hall v. State · 345 So. 2d 325 - Smith 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellant is correct ... that ‘penetration by the male sex organ into the sexual organ of the female must be shown in order to sustain a conviction of rape_’ Jackson v. State, 471 So.2d 516, 517 (Ala.Cr.App.1985); Long v. State, 370 So.2d 354 (Ala.Cr.App.1979); Smith v. State, 345 So.2d 325 (Ala.Cr.App.1976). However, ‘[t]he nature of the penetration that is essential for a rape conviction need not be proved in any particular form of words.’ Swint v. State, 455 So.2d 285, 287 (Ala.Cr.App.1984); Edmonds v. State, 380 So.2d 396, 398 (Ala.Cr.App.1980).””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Seales v. State · Seales v. State““Because of the language and communication difficulties of an underage victim, more than a few cases have dealt with the matter of proving what was formerly referred to as a ‘statutory rape.’ Whether there was actual penetration in a rape prosecution is a question of fact to be determined by the jury.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Seales v. State · Seales v. State“[t]he nature of the penetration that is essential for a rape conviction need not be proved in any particular form of words.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Seales 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.