Contreras v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2006
13 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 Schad v. Arizona · United States v. Edwards · Montgomery v. State · Heitman v. State · Long 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The only type of “force” which will support a rape conviction is that which “overcomes such earnest resistance as might reasonably be expected under the circumstances.” The only type of “threat” which will support a rape conviction is that which “would prevent resistance by a woman of ordinary resolution.” The indictment in effect alleged what had to be proved. See Article 21.03, Vernon’s Ann.C.C.P. When the terms “force” and “threats” were used in the indictment, the appellant was given adequate notice of the offense with which he was charged and clearly the language of the Gray opinion and the holding in Baldwin are here applicable. While generally it is better practice to describe the offense in the indictment in the words of the statute, the instant indictment was not fundamentally defective. It is not necessary that an indictment for rape allege the character of the force or specify the threats. The use of the general terms as in the instant indictment is sufficient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tullous 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.