State v. Brenner’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
2 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently February 2001 · most notably State v. Des Marets (1983), State v. Vasquez (1992)
2 district · 43 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 Commonwealth v. Wardell · Van Houten v. State · State v. Lash · State v. Michalis · State v. Waxman
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Lewdness, within the concept of the statute, imports some degree of sexual aberration or impurity. It denotes gross and wanton indecency in the sexual relations. [ Id. at 610]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Originally the Crimes Act [L. 1898, c. 235, § 51] condemned only `open lewdness, or any notorious act of public indecency, grossly scandalous and tending to debauch the morals and manners of the people.' [at 609]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.