2006 UT App 356 - State v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2025
13 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 Morton International, Inc. v. Auditing Division of the Utah State Tax Commission · State v. Workman · State v. Archuleta · Carrier v. Salt Lake County · Biddle v. Washington Terrace City
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[might] still be punished under the indecent liberties prong of the statute, when, considering all the surrounding circumstances, the conduct is comparable to the touching that is specifically prohibited.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A person commits forcible sexual abuse if the victim is 14 years of age or older and, under cireumstances not amounting to rape, object rape, sodomy, or attempted rape or sodomy, the actor touches the anus, buttocks, or any part of the genitals of another, or touches the breast of a female, or otherwise takes indecent liberties with another, or causes another to take indecent liberties with the actor or another, 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, without the consent of the other, regardless of the sex of any participant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“any touching, even if accomplished through clothing, is sufficient to constitute”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.