State v. Peyton’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 1978
18 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 · Beard v. State · Harvey v. State · Bryant 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Of course it must be alleged in an indictment for rape that the act was committed `against the will' of the female, for that is an essential element of the crime. But the facts constituting the crime need not be charged in the precise words of the statute. If words are used which convey the same meaning so as to charge all the essential elements of the crime, it is sufficient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. UNDERDOWM v. State“`feloniously and forcibly ravish and carnally know'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. UNDERDOWM 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.