State v. Dye’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
324 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 330 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Wilks (Slip Opinion) (2018), State v. Cooper (2007)
324 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 State v. Eskridge
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 330 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“force and violence necessary to commit the crime of rape depends upon the age, size and strength of the parties and their relation to each other.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.