State v. Ploof’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The statute does not define with any certainty the crime, and the complaint should set forth the nature of the acts alleged to be “lewd” and “lascivious” with such particularity that it will clearly appear upon the fact of the complaint whether their character is such as to come within those terms.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re K.A., Juvenile