Parent v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Rose v. State (1988), Bynum v. State (1989)
58 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 County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen · Oil Well Drilling Co. v. Associated Indemnity Corp. · Threlkeld v. State · Deeds v. State · Christ 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is incumbent upon the defendant to show that in its operation the statute is unconstitutional as to him in his situation; that it may be unconstitutional as to others is not sufficient.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Santikos v. State · James v. State“[t]he uncontroverted evidence in this case shows that the child was thirteen years old at the time the offense was committed. To assert a Sec. 21.10(b) defense, however, it is necessary that the child be fourteen years or older at the time the offense is committed. Even if the appellant had been engaged in heterosexual conduct rather than homosexual conduct, he could not assert a Sec. 21.10(b) defense in this case because of the child’s age.... [emphasis added]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boutwell v. State“It is a defense to prosecution under this section that the child was of the opposite sex, was at the time of the alleged offense 14 years or older, and had, prior to the alleged offense, engaged promiscuously in sexual intercourse or deviate sexual intercourse. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boulding 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.