May v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2018
21 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 Johnson v. Mississippi · Fort Wayne Books, Inc. v. Indiana · Boykin v. State · Wicker v. State · 7 E.H. Smith 90 - People v. . Nelson
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a child under fourteen cannot legally consent to sex,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is presumed that in enacting a statute, all words in the statute were intended to be effective.”); Polk v. State, 676 S.W.2d 408, 410 (Tex.Crim.App.1984) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that consent is not given any legal effect and provides no defense”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re BW
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.