State v. Serna’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
August 1993
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Delaware v. New York · Sanders Confectionery Products Inc. v. Heller Financial, Inc. · Bell v. State of Maryland · State v. Atwood · State v. Vineyard
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person who knowingly molests a child under the age of fifteen years by directly or indirectly touching the private parts of such child or who causes a child under the age of fifteen years to directly or indirectly touch the private parts of such person is guilty of a class 2 felony and is punishable pursuant to § 13-604.01.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hamilton
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.