State v. Rivers’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

27 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]his common probation condition could extend to any number of other public places where children are regularly present such as grocery stores, movie theatres, libraries, fast-food restaurants, parks, or even downtown streets all across Vermont where children often congregate in large numbers after school and during the summer months. When removed from the context of victim-contact or private locations where different considerations apply, such a broad rule severely restricts a probationer’s liberty while doing little to rehabilitate the offender or prevent the behavior that led to the no-contact condition in the first place.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Bailey · State v. Lathrop

2. “rule in determining whether the defendant had violated the no-contact condition. In support of our rejection of this rule, we noted that public incidental contact does not present the same dangers to a protected class as unapproved proximity-contact with minors in the context of a private residence, and we observed that”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Bailey

3. “nothing more than incidental proximity-contact in a public place with numerous, unspecified individuals who are members of an ubiquitous class”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Bailey