State v. Thorpe’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2004
12 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 55 Cal. 2d 328 - People v. Burton · State v. Percy · State v. Percy · State v. McFall · 271 Cal. App. 2d 826 - People v. Neal
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Since it is natural for a woman or child to complain to someone responsible for her welfare of an outrage of this character, the failure to complain could be urged by the defense to contradict or discredit her testimony. Because of this[,] cases generally allow the prosecution to forestall such discrediting, or any inference derived from failure to complain, by admitting testimony of the fact of the complaint, but not the details.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Devall · State v. Midgett“* * * want of proof of any complaint by the complaining witness tends to weaken her testimony. Thus has sprung up the rule of law which permits the testimony of third parties tending to prove the fact that complaint was made. This rule, under all authorities, allows no further proof than that complaint was made, with possibly proof of what was said as to the name of the guilty party. * * *.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Devall · State v. Twyford“[T]he rule allows no further proof than that fact [that the complaint was made] and possibly proof of what was said as to the name of the guilty party. ‘It does not permit testimony of the third party relating what the complaining witness said as to the details of the offense[.]’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Midgett
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.