152 Wash. 2d 22 - State v. Lorenz’s Empirical Analysis

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15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A person is guilty of child molestation in the first degree when the person has, or knowingly causes another person under the age of eighteen to have, sexual contact with another who is less than twelve years old and not married to the perpetrator and the perpetrator is at least thirty-six months older than the victim.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Stevens · State v. ANJ

2. “as an element of child molestation. ¶ 8 The State relies on Lorenz to argue that the purpose of sexual gratification is not an essential element to first degree child molestation [2] but is merely a definitional term used to clarify the element of”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Stevens · State v. Lorenz

3. “[a]ny touching of the sexual or other intimate parts of a person done for the purpose of gratifying sexual desire of either party or a third party.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Stevens · State v. Stevens