State v. Weese’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 2009
22 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on State Ex Rel. Zander v. DISTRICT COURT OF THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT · Haker v. Southwestern Railway Co. · 24 Wash. App. 517 - In Re the Welfare of Adams · 33 Or. App. 157 - State v. Turner · Montana Department of Social & Rehabilitation Services v. Angel
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he policy behind our sexual assault statute is to criminalize and punish sexual or intimate impositions that do not involve penetration; but which express a societal concern for such impositions because they provoke outrage, disgust or shame in the victim. Use of the terms “sexual or other intimate parts” indicates that the legislature did not intend to restrict the crime to a touching of the genitalia of either sex or a touching of a female’s breast, but instead intended to give the terms a broader application ....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘Sexual contact’ means any touching of the sexual or other intimate parts of the person of another for the purpose of arousing or gratifying the sexual desire of either party.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Kao · State v. Gilpin
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.