Berry v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2005
19 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 Seaton v. State · Rogers v. State · Church v. State · City of Webster Groves v. Institutional & Public Employees Union
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) he compels her to submit or participate by force that overcomes such earnest resistance as might reasonably be expected under the circumstances;”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Rucker v. State · Bonfanti v. State“(a) A person commits an offense if he [has sexual intercourse with a female not his wife without the female's consent]... and he: * * * * * * (2) compels submission to the rape by threat of death, [or] serious bodily injury ... to be imminently inflicted on anyone.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Rucker v. State“(34) `Serious bodily injury' means bodily injury that creates a substantial risk of death or that causes death, serious permanent disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.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.