Perez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Santillanes v. State (1993), State v. Hernandez (1993)
2 district · 29 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 Dennis v. United States · United States v. Dotterweich · Figueroa v. United States · State v. Lucero · Reese v. State
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While a child under the age of thirteen requires the protection of strict liability, the same is not true of victims thirteen to sixteen years of age. We recognize the increased maturity and independence of today's teenagers and, while we do not hold that knowledge of the victim's age is an element of the offense, we do hold that under the facts of this case the defendant should have been allowed to present his defense of mistake of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Jadowski“When the law requires a mathematical formula for its application, we cannot say that being provided the wrong numbers is immaterial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.