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Cowan v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1978

Citation profile

47
cited by 47 later decisions
1
states following
April 2011
most recently cited

46 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably Ely v. State (1979), Hammett v. State (1979)

46 state decisions

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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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Blackledge v. Perry · Smith v. State · Garcia 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Now if you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on or about the 9th day of December A.D., 1982, the defendant, Daniel K. Fox, did knowingly or intentionally by force that overcame such earnest resistance as might reasonably have been expected under the circumstances or threats that would prevent resistance by a woman of ordinary resolution under the same or similar circumstances, because of a reasonable fear of harm have sexual intercourse with Donna Bellinger, a female not his wife, without her consent, and the defendant did intentionally or knowingly by acts, words, or deeds place the said Donna Bellinger in fear of serious bodily injury to be imminently inflicted on the said Donna Bellinger, you will find the defendant guilty of aggravated rape as charged in the indictment. [Emphasis added.]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Fox 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.