State v. Payne’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
6 district · 172 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 178 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Rivera v. Double A Transportation, Inc. (1999), State v. Padua (2005)
6 district · 172 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 Smith v. Goguen · Fertel-Rust v. Dane County Social Services · Hiatt v. Indiana State Student Assistance Commission · Hayes v. Lockhart · Quantum Chemical Corp. v. Pratt
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 178 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he first part of § 53-21 prohibits the wilful creation of a `situation' likely to impair the health of a child and thus encompasses the protection of the body as well as the safety and security of the environment in which the child exists, and for which the adult is responsible. The plain language of the first part of § 53-21 indicates the legislature's understanding that there is a broad class of intentional conduct that can put a child's well-being seriously at risk without any physical contact by the perpetrator.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“References to judicial opinions involving the statute . . . may be necessary to ascertain a statute's meaning to determine if it gives fair warning.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Any person who wilfully or unlawfully causes or permits any child under the age of sixteen years to be placed in such a situation that the life or limb of such child is endangered, or its health is likely to be injured or its morals likely to be impaired, or does any act likely to impair the health or morals of any such child shall be fined not more than $500.00 or imprisoned not more than ten years or both.”
3 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.