People v. Abbott’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 2003 · most notably United States Ex Rel. James J. Savini v. J. Vernal Jackson, Warden, Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N. Y. (1957), People v. Gray (1911)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 42 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 Strang v. People · People v. Courier · Scripps v. Reilly · People v. McDonald · Leonard v. Pope
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Respondent’s counsel drew from the girl the fact that at other times prior to the alleged offense she had had intercourse with several other men. The court admitted this testimony on the claim of counsel for respondent that it was competent as bearing upon the girl’s credibility. It was not competent, in this case, even for that purpose. If the girl had been of the age of consent, it might be competent to admit evidence of her general reputation for chastity, as bearing upon the probability of her story, but specific acts of unchastity could not be inquired into. People v. McLean, 71 Mich. 309 . But here the law conclusively presumes that the girl could not give her consent, and every act of intercourse with her would be a crime committed against her, and such acts could not, therefore, affect her credibility. Her reputation for truth and veracity could be inquired into the same as of an adult, but she could not be impeached by her acts of intercourse.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gay““In this case it was a question for the jury, under the evidence in the case, to determine whether the respondent was guilty of rape, of assault with intent to commit that crime, or of simple assault; and the court should have directed them what constitutes the lesser offenses, and that they might convict on either of these lesser offenses” — citing Hall v. People, 47 Mich. 636 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Lupu““Upon an indictment for any offense, consisting of different degreés, as prescribed in this title, the jury may find the accused not guilty of the offense in the degree charged in the. indictment, and may find such accused person guilty of any degree of such offense, inferior to that charged in the indictment, or of an attempt to commit such offense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. David
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.