State v. Reeves’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 1945 · most notably State v. Faulkner (1903), State v. Henderson (1905)
33 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 Armstrong v. . People · State v. Green · State v. Patterson · Price v. Inhabitants of Breckenridge · State v. Forsythe
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No one can, with any degree of plausibility, contend that a virtuous female could be seduced without any of those arts, wiles and blandishments, so necessary to win the hearts of the weaker sex. To say that such a one was seduced by simply a blunt offer of wedlock in futuro, in exchange for sexual favors in praesenti, is an announcement that smacks too much of bargain and barter, and not enough of betrayal. This is hire, or salary, not seduction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Meister““If the jury believe beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant, at the county of Callaway, Missouri, and within three years of the finding of the indictment, promised Zerelda Hall to marry her if she would permit him to have sexual intercourse with her, and if she did so on the faith of that promise, and she was at the time under the age of *twenty-one years, and unmarried and of good repute, they will find defendant guilty.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Lewis
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.