Zanghetti v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Kitchens v. State (1991), Anderson v. State (1986)
50 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 Ely v. State · Dovalina v. State · Cowan v. State · Archie v. State · Mott v. State
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Now if you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on or about the 9th day of December A.D., 1982, the defendant, Daniel K. Fox, did knowingly or intentionally by force that overcame such earnest resistance as might reasonably have been expected under the circumstances or threats that would prevent resistance by a woman of ordinary resolution under the same or similar circumstances, because of a reasonable fear of harm have sexual intercourse with Donna Bellinger, a female not his wife, without her consent, and the defendant did intentionally or knowingly by acts, words, or deeds place the said Donna Bellinger in fear of serious bodily injury to be imminently inflicted on the said Donna Bellinger, you will find the defendant guilty of aggravated rape as charged in the indictment. [Emphasis added.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Borrego v. State · Fox v. State““If a statute creates only one offense ... the different phases of the offense — that is, the different ways by which it may be committed — may be alleged in the same count if not repugnant to each other and if the punishment is the same, and the correct way of joining such is by the word ‘and,’ and under such joinder proof of any one of such phases so joined is sufficient.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Peden v. State · Pinkerton v. State“and court instructed the jury to find the defendant guilty if he acted”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Matter of LG · Matter of Kbh
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.