State v. Pettijohn’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1996
8 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 Honselman v. People · Bridgeforth v. Illinois · Kelly v. People · State v. Crawford · State v. Wellman
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[E]very person who shall be convicted of the detestable and abominable crime against nature, committed with mankind or with beast, with the sexual organs or with the mouth, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than two years.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Crosby“penis out of his pants and a little girl with her mouth on his penis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“could not clarify the officer's testimony as to what `on'”
1 later decision 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.