State v. Colosimo’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 2025
19 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 Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Kolender v. Lawson · Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc. · Edgar v. Mite Corp. · United States v. Meek
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. . . . [A] person shall not knowingly contact or communicate with or attempt to contact or communicate with a child who is less than 16 years of age and who is at least 5 years younger than the person with the intent to persuade, lure or transport the child away from his home or from any location known to his parent or guardian or other person legally responsible for the child to a place other than where the child is located, for any purpose: (a) Without the express consent of the parent or guardian or other person legally responsible for the child; and (b) With the intent to avoid the consent of the parent or guardian or other person legally responsible for the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State“[W]hen the language of a statute is plain, its intention must be deduced from such language, and the court has no right to go beyond it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“speech is merely the vehicle through which a pedophile ensnares the victim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rung
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.