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← 606 P2D 250 - State v. Myers

State v. Myers’s Empirical Analysis

1980

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
February 2015
most recently cited

12 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2015

12 state decisions

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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.

  1. “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
  2. “[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 passage
  3. “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.