State v. Walsh’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2009
14 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 Ohio v. Johnson · United States v. Cresta · State v. True · Commonwealth v. Jones · State v. Allen
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person is guilty of gross sexual misconduct 1. If he engages in a sexual act with another person ... and [[Image here]] B. The other person, not his spouse, has not in fact attained his 14th birthday.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Michaud“[T]he role of the prosecutor is to argue for guilt, and [jurors] might just as well read nothing more into T believe' than they have already read into the decision to prosecute.”
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.