State v. Dacke’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The requirement that the female against whom the offense is committed shall be of ‘previously chaste character’ was unknown to the common law, nor was it an ingredient of any statute of this state defining rape, until the act of 1909. When, therefore, that act went into effect on the 8th day of June, 1909, it brought within its protecting terms a theretofore — so far as this crime is concerned — unknown requirement, that of previous chastity. The carnal knowledge of a female child between the ages of fifteen and eighteen years with her consent, under the old law, constituted rape; but under this act of 1909, under which this information lies, such carnal knowledge is not a crime unless the female child be of ‘previously chaste character’.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Sargent

2. “The test of virtue in a woman is a personal and physical test, and when, by reason of her voluntary sin, she has lost her virginal purity, it matters not who contributed to that loss; she is no longer chaste.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kruger v. State