Seaton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably Nethery v. State (1985), McManus v. State (1979)
56 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 American Plant Food Corporation v. State · Clark v. State · Esquivel v. State · Clark v. State · Torres 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The term `threats' is not limited to the use of verbal aggression but may include acts amounting to an offer to use future force. Threats may be communicated by actions, words or deeds."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rucker v. State“compels submission to the rape by threat of death, serious bodily injury, or kidnapping to be imminently inflicted on anyone.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rucker v. State“bruises on her face and head, two black eyes and other bruises on her body.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rucker 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.