State v. Senters’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Hamit v. Hamit (2006), State v. Wiedeman (2013)
2 district · 24 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 Roe v. Wade · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · New York v. Ferber · Federal Communications Commission v. Beach Communications, Inc.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is reasonable to conclude that persons 16 and 17 years old, although old enough to consent to sexual relations, may not fully appreciate that today's recording of a private, intimate moment may be the Internet's biggest hit next week.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Sanders“the State, in regulating child pornography, remains free to define children as persons under the age of 18, even if the age of consent is lower, as long as the law passes traditional rational basis review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Sanders“does not involve minors[,] . . . persons who might be injured or coerced or who are situated in relationships where consent might not easily be refused[, or] . . . public conduct or prostitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Sanders
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.