State v. Mahon’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2020
16 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 Pinkerton v. United States · State v. Golding · Johnson v. Righetti · In re Disbarment of Sacco · Southland Corp. v. United States
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.
“[T]he jury reasonably could have concluded that the defendant's act of removing her underpants, to assist his companion in sexually assaulting her , constituted force. Thus, as this claim relates to the defendant's conviction of conspiracy to commit sexual assault in the first degree and sexual assault in the first degree as an accessory , the jury reasonably could have found that his forcible removal of [the victim's] underpants while she was under assault from Duncan met the force requirement of the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The jury also reasonably could have inferred that the defendant's act of forcibly removing [the victim's] underpants, to assist Duncan in sexually assaulting [her], constituted an implied threat that he would use force to compel her to engage in sexual intercourse with him and that such implied threat was intended to and did in fact compel [the victim] to submit to sexual intercourse with the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A person is guilty of sexual assault in the first degree when such person ... compels another person to engage in sexual intercourse by the use of force against such other person or a third person, or by the threat of use of force against such other person or against a third person which reasonably causes such person to fear physical injury to such person or a third person ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.