State v. Polkey’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably State v. Creel (1989), State v. Andrews (1995)
35 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 Solem v. Helm · 439 So. 2d 1099 - State v. Korman · State v. Tasker · 456 So. 2d 979 - State v. Foley · 422 So. 2d 1128 - State v. Willie
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . Aggravated rape inflicts mental and psychological damage to its victim and undermines the community sense of security. The physical trauma and indignities suffered by the young victim of this offense were of enormous magnitude . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A. Aggravated rape is a rape committed where the anal or vaginal sexual intercourse is deemed to be without lawful consent of the victim because it is committed under any one or more of the following circumstances: * * # * * * (3) When the victim is prevented from resisting the act because the offender is armed with a dangerous weapon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cox“A. Aggravated crime against nature is crime against nature committed under any one or more of the following circumstances: [[Image here]] (6) When the victim is under the age of seventeen years and the offender is at least three years older than the victim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Francis
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.