State v. Erzen’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably State v. Payne (1997), State v. Branham (2000)
2 district · 44 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 Grayned v. City of Rockford · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Winters v. People of State of New York · United States v. Batchelder · Hazeltine Corp. v. RCA Corp.
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e also look to see whether a person of ordinary intelligence would reasonably know what acts are permitted or prohibited by the use of his common sense and ordinary understanding.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In Tirado, [the appellate court] made it abundantly clear that the kissing of the victim was not intended to be the sole basis for the conviction, but rather was part of a pattern of sexual conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“does not specify the `situations' deemed likely to impair the morals of a child.”
1 later decision 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.