1 Wash. 2d 521 - State v. Stuhr’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 1996
14 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 Fluhart v. Seattle Electric Co. · State v. Millard · State v. Randall · People v. Hicks · Dekelt v. People
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Indecent means “unfit to be seen * * * offensive to modesty and delicacy.” Its synonyms are shameful; impure; obscene. One definition of liberties is privileges or licenses taken in violation of the laws of propriety.— Webster. So, it is apparent, when we take into consideration that the purpose of the act was to protect the morals of the child, that the legislature employed apt words to describe the offense, because it is evident that the acts constituting the offense means [sic] such as the common sense of society would regard as indecent and improper. . . . True, what shall be regarded as “immodest, immoral and indecent liberties” is not specified with particularity, but that is not necessary. The indelicacy of the subject forbids it. The common sense of the community, as well as the sense of decency, propriety and morality which people generally entertain is sufficient to apply the statute to each particular case, and point out unmistakably what particular conduct is rendered criminal by it. (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a finding that he committed either act established his guilt of the crime charged.”
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.