State v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 state decisions

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “degree of force employed and the extent to which the victim resists.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 938 So. 2d 1147 - State v. Hanson · 917 So. 2d 1201 - State v. Price

2. “A. Forcible rape is rape committed when the anal, oral, or vaginal sexual intercourse is deemed to be without the lawful consent of the victim because it is committed under any one or more of the following circumstances: (1) When the victim is prevented from resisting the act by force or threats of physical violence under circumstances where the victim reasonably believes that such resistance would not prevent the rape. (2) When the victim is incapable of resisting or of understanding the nature of the act by reason of stupor or abnormal condition of the mind produced by a narcotic or anesthetic agent or other controlled dangerous substance administered by the offender and without the knowledge of the victim. * * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 917 So. 2d 1201 - State v. Price

3. “A. Aggravated rape is a rape committed... where the anal or vaginal sexual intercourse is deemed to be without lawful consent of the victim because it is committed under any one or more of the following circumstances: (1) When the victim resists the act to the utmost, but whose resistance is overcome by force. . . . (3) When the victim is prevented from resisting the act by threats of great and immediate bodily harm, accompanied by apparent power of execution.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 774 So. 2d 379 - State v. Taylor