State v. Peeples’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “any act involving the genitals of one person and the hand , mouth, tongue, or anus of another person or a sexual act involving the penetration , however slight, of the male or female sex organ or the anus by a finger, instrument or object done for the purpose of arousing or gratifying the sexual desire of any person[.]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Adams · Jeffcott v. State

2. “any touching of another person with the genitals or any touching of the genitals ... of another person ... for the purpose of arousing or gratifying [the] sexual desire of any person”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Adams · Jeffcott v. State

3. “[t]he evidence at issue must be favorable to the accused, either because it is exculpatory, or because it is impeaching; that evidence must have been suppressed by the State, either willfully or inadvertently; and prejudice must have ensued.”

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