2004 UT App 7 - State v. Piep’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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

1. “The doctrine of gjusdem generis applies in instances where an inexhaustive enumeration of particular or specific terms is followed by a general term or terms that suggest a class. The doctrine declares that in order to give meaning to the general term, the general term is understood as restricted to include things of the same kind, class, character, or nature as those specifically enumerated, unless there is something to show a contrary intent.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2011 UT App 94 - Carol L. Lowry Irrevocable Trust v. G & L Enterprises, LLC

2. “[a] person commits sexual abuse of a child if, under circumstances not amounting to rape of a child, object rape of a child, sodomy upon a child, or an attempt to commit any of these offenses, the actor touches the anus, buttocks, or genitalia of any child ... with intent to cause substantial emotional or bodily pain to any person or with the intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person regardless of the sex of any participant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State Ex Rel. D.T.

3. “same kind, class, character, or nature as those specifically enumerated, unless there is something to show a contrary intent.”

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