State v. Elton’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
November 1985
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 61 Cal. 2d 529 - People v. Hernandez · State v. Fulks · Nelson v. Moriarty · State v. Harrison
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) A person commits unlawful sexual intercourse if that person has sexual intercourse with a person, not that person’s spouse, who is under sixteen years of age. (2) Unlawful sexual intercourse is a felony of the third degree except when at the time of intercourse the actor is no more than three years older than the victim, in which case it is a class B misdemeanor. Evidence that the actor was not more than three years older than the victim at the time of the intercourse shall be raised by the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Elton
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.