State v. Myers’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2015
12 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 State v. Peterson
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that if a woman is 'friendly' in accepting the proffered hospitality of a man ... and engages in 'necking,' [kissing and hugging] and that this persists over a period of time, she loses her right to protest against further advances the man may desire to force upon her; and thereby subjects herself to such advances and should be deemed to consent to intercourse if he, but not she, so desires”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] court has the right, and indeed should exercise the duty, to arrest a judgment after a jury verdict in an appropriate case.... In. short, the legal mechanism of arresting a judgment is a firmly entrenched exception to the rule of law in a proper case that jurors are the exclusive judges of the credibility of the witnesses and the weight of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Workman“there has been a trial by jury, the [Sitate, as well as the defendant, is entitled to the benefit of the findings and the verdict of the jury.”
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.