People v. Snyder’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably 42 Cal. 3d 284 - People v. Barnes (1986), 48 Cal. 2d 394 - People v. Marshall (1957)
28 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.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This contention is that, while the information charges the crime to have been committed by force, violence, etc., the • proof shows that it was committed, if at all, by means of an intoxicating or narcotic substance; administered to the prosecuting witness by the accused, an,(I that under section 261 of the Penal Code an information charging the crime to have been committed by force cannot be supported by proofs showing it to have been committed by fraud or artifice. The common-law definition of rape was ‘the carnal knowledge of a woman forcibly and against her will.’ 4 Bla. Com. 210. And the indictment was substantially in the form of the information in the case at bar. And through decisions made from time to time, it gradually came to be the settled law, although there are cases to the contrary, that under such an indictment it was competent and sufficient to prove that the act charged was committed upon a child of tender years, incapable of consent; upon a lunatic or insane woman; by intimidation; when the woman was unconscious of the nature of the act; by the administration of intoxicating or, narcotic substances; by false personation of a husband, etc. The criminal law of this state followed the common-law definition of the crime down to the adoption of the Codes. Hittel’s Gen. Laws, sec. 1449. Section 261 of the Penal Code commences as follows: ‘Rape is an act of sexual intercourse accomplished with a female not the wife of the perpetrator, under either of the followin”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'by force, violence and against her will and resistance,'”
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.