Ephraim v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1995 · most notably Wainwright v. Stone (1973), 257 So. 2d 21 - Franklin v. State (1971)
2 federal appellate · 23 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 Honselman v. People · Glover v. State · Kelly v. People · Caldwell v. Peoples Bank · Thomas 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question presented is whether the crime defined by Section 3524 Gen. Stats. 1906, Section 5424 Rev. Gen. Stats. 1920 comprehends the act of copulation between two human beings per os. The statute above referred to is the only one upon the subject. It provides for punishment for the commission of the abominable and detestable crime against nature.’ If the statute includes the act committed by the two defendants upon the person’ named Son Gary, there is no merit in the assignments of error, and the judgment should be affirmed. “The evidence is undisputed. The act for which the defendants were indicted under the statute referred to was proven. A discussion of the loathsome, revolting (continued on next page) crime would be of no edification to the people, nor interest to the members of the bar. The creatures who are guilty are entitled to a consideration of their case because they are called human beings and are entitled to the protection of the laws. “Other courts in the discharge of the duties devolving upon them have been compelled to consider the same question as is presented in this case, and held that acts like those proven in this case constituted the ‘detestable crime against nature.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lason 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.