Salsman v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2014
13 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 Isaacs v. Commonwealth · Cooper v. Commonwealth · Wilson v. Commonwealth · Elmore v. Commonwealth · Jones v. Commonwealth
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.
“... the term includes a threat, express or implied, that overcomes earnest resistance by placing a person in fear. . . [T]he threat must be communicated, and it must be the cause of the submission. . . [T]he phrase “earnest resistance” requires more than token initial resistance but less than showing that the victim was physically incapable of additional struggle.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The [alleged victim] was mentally retarded. Because of her deafness, she had difficulty understanding communications from other persons. She was alone in the house. Salsman ignored her physical resistance to his efforts to perform an oral sex act upon her. He ignored her repeated indications that she did not wish to have sex with him. He physically pulled her from a chair. Salsman physically held the [alleged victim] while he removed her clothing. 46”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“anymore than the swindler who cheats gullible people by false statements which they should have found incredible.”
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.