57 Wis. 2d 515 - Adams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) The male must have the intent to act so as to have intercourse with the female by overcoming or preventing her utmost resistance by physical violence, or overcoming her will to resist by the use of threats of imminent physical violence likely to cause great bodily harm; (2) the male must act toward the commission of the rape by overt acts which demonstrate unequivocally, under all the circumstances, that he formed the intent to rape and would have committed the rape except for the intervention of another person or some other extraneous factor.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 83 Wis. 2d 199 - Leach v. State · State v. Grimm

2. ““We are satisfied here that the resistance offered by the complainant constituted a valid extraneous factor within the contemplation of sec. 939.32 (2), Stats.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 74 Wis. 2d 107 - Hoppe v. State · 86 Wis. 2d 474 - State v. Dix

3. ““(1) His statement to complainant as he threw her on the floor, T don’t really want the room, I want you because I never had a white woman before;’ (2) his forcibly pulling complainant’s shorts and undergarments to her knees; (3) his insertion of a finger into complainant’s vagina; (4) his threat to the child in the event complainant should cry out; (5) his renewed struggle after throwing the child onto a couch; and (6) his belt buckle being undone.” Supra at 519.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 85 Wis. 2d 620 - Lhost v. State