Keeton v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 state decisions

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Persons being within the degrees within which marriages are prohibited by law to be incestuous and void ...[,] or persons who are prohibited from marrying by reason of blood and between whom marriage is declared to be unlawful and void, who shall cohabit, or live together as husband and wife, or be guilty of a single act of adultery or fornication.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Williams v. State

2. “The defendant will be held to answer for his own conduct which is obviously willingly done on his part, and it is his acts which complete the crime of incest. The defendant’s guilt is measured by his knowledge and his intent and not by the knowledge or intent of his daughter on whom he committed the offense.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Williams v. State

3. “If this Court has not before adopted, we here adopt the majority position that consent is not a necessary element of incest”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Douglas v. State