State v. Love’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “defendant's touching of the crotch and breast areas of the children was not innocent contact”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ray v. State · State v. Davis

2. “We recognize that, in certain circumstances, McMeans and other cases which have found that an adult's actions toward a child were done for "no other discernible reason" but for the purpose of sexual arousal or gratification may be applicable in the juvenile context. We find it difficult, however, to apply McMeans in this case, where Juvenile was eight or nine and T.H. was five, six or seven, and there was no evidence regarding the Juvenile's behavioral development or knowledge of sexual subject matter. Without such evidence or more detailed information regarding the circumstances of the touchings, we are unwilling to find that an eight or nine year old touches his penis to the mouth of a five or six year old for no discernible reason other than sexual arousal or gratification.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ray v. State

3. “The posture of this case is unusual in that possibly the most significant evidence in the case is before this court in the same form as it was before the trial court. The exhibits filed with this court include the videotape recordings of the interactions between defendant and the four children who are deemed the victims in the offenses for which he was found guilty.... With respect to that evidence, as observed in similar circumstances in Mid-Continent Nat’l. Bank v. Bank of Independence, 523 S.W.2d 569, 573 (Mo.App.1975), “we enjoy the same coign of vantage to assess credibility as did the trial court, thus the principle of deference does not apply.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. McMeans