State v. Sanders’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Bodily harm includes an act of physical violence, even though no permanent injury results to subject the accused to the more severe penalty. Our Supreme Court has held that rape is an act of violence unnecessary to and not part of the kidnapping itself. Oral sodomy follows the same reasoning. It is unnecessary to and not a part of the kidnapping itself. The same act of physical violence is perpetrated upon the victim, the only difference being the location of where the penis was placed by force. Both have the effect of physical violence. . . . Bodily harm was significant and great. Therefore, I find that the crime of aggravated sodomy constitutes bodily harm within the meaning of those words as a matter of law.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Chears

2. “when bodily harm is inflicted upon the person kidnapped.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 45 Kan. App. 2d 559 - Crowther v. State