State v. Deyo’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. “(a) A person commits the crime of aggravated sexual assault if the person commits sexual assault under any one of the following circumstances: (9) The victim is subjected by the actor to repeated non-consensual sexual acts as part of the same occurrence or the victim is subjected to repeated nonconsensual sexual acts as part of the actor’s common scheme and plan.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Shawn Bellanger · State v. Hazelton

2. “Here, the statutes covering the subject of consent by minors to sexual activity with adults, while they do describe certain instances in which minors can give consent, do not do away with the common law that does not generally recognize consent by minors to sexual activity. Rather, by specifically enumerating those limited circumstances in which a minor can consent, the Legislature has only reinforced its adherence to the common law. Thus, the most reasonable construction of the statutes is that a minor is legally incapable of consenting to sexual intercourse with an adult except in the very narrow circumstances in which the Legislature has explicitly stated that a minor's consent will be effective.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Shawn Bellanger

3. “where statutes covering a subject are more narrow than the common law, the common law remains in force as to cases outside the scope of the statute.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Shawn Bellanger