State v. Smith

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that the common law is “subject to change by the Legislature”
• discussing the history of the marital exemption to the crime of rape at English common law
• discussing \the inequities of a medieval rule that denies some women protection against sexual attack and treats them as sexual property of their husbands\
• If a court’s interpretation of a statute is not “unexpected,” then due process is not violated.
• referring to the common law “exemption” as a “defense”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

30 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Chretien
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-03-09· cited 75×
• State ex rel. M.T.S.
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1992-07-30· cited 69×
• LaFage v. Jani
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2001-02-22· cited 68×
• Daniel v. State, Dept. of Transp.
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1990-03-19· cited 65×
• State v. One 1990 Honda Accord
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1998-07-15· cited 41×
• State v. Sein
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1991-05-21· cited 37×
• Lane v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-12-15· cited 29×
• Weishaupt v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-04-27· cited 28×
• Lewis v. Harris
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2005-06-14· cited 25×
• Duane Brecheisen v. Eloy Mondragon, Warden And, Attorney General, State of New Mexico
  Tenth Circuit· 1987-11-12· cited 22×
• Warren v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-11-06· cited 21×
• State v. Scott
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1987-05-26· cited 20×
• State v. Smith
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-07-01· cited 14×
• Shunn v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1987-09-18· cited 12×
• Merton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1986-10-14· cited 11×
• State v. Rider
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-04-17· cited 11×
• State v. Oliver
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1996-11-08· cited 11×
• McCarthy v. Ehrens
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1986-06-06· cited 8×
• Kubert v. Best
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2013-08-27· cited 5×
• State v. Willis
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1986-10-10· cited 4×

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Roe v. Wade
  Supreme Court· 1973-01-22· cited 5,581×
• United States v. Harriss
  Supreme Court· 1954-06-07· cited 1,827×
• Bouie v. City of Columbia
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 1,779×
• Doe v. Bolton
  Supreme Court· 1973-02-26· cited 1,432×
• Beazell v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1925-11-23· cited 945×
• Rose v. Locke
  Supreme Court· 1975-11-17· cited 516×
• Collopy v. Newark Eye and Ear Infirmary
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1958-04-28· cited 163×
• Immer v. Risko
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1970-07-10· cited 153×
• State v. Koonce
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1965-10-26· cited 77×
• King v. Greene
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1959-06-30· cited 68×
• United States v. Dege
  Supreme Court· 1960-06-27· cited 38×
• State v. Young
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1978-07-20· cited 34×
• Holloman v. Jarnagin
  Supreme Court· 1957-04-22· cited 30×
• Stewart v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-03-02· cited 23×
• In Re Application of Lawrence
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1975-04-02· cited 19×
• Application of Faas
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1956-10-09· cited 18×
• People v. Morton
  New York Court of Appeals· 1954-12-31· cited 16×
• State v. Pittman
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1973-06-08· cited 10×
• State v. Heyer
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1916-06-19· cited 9×
• State v. Smith
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1977-01-21· cited 8×