Mings v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 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 Commonwealth v. Burke · Bailey v. Commonwealth · Coleman v. Commonwealth · Boxley v. Commonwealth
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The crime, however, really consists in the ravishment of a woman without her consent; and the question, therefore, always is, was the woman willing or unwilling? And if it appear that carnal intercourse was effected with her without her consent, the crime of rape is proved, although no positive resistance of the will be shown. Or, as Bishop expresses it, ‘wherever there is a carnal connection without anything which can be deemed a consent—where there is neither a consent fraudulently procured, nor any other sort of consent—by the woman, there is evidently, in the wrong ful act itself, all the force which the law demands as an element of the crime.’ 2 Bish. Crim. Law, sec. 1078.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.