State v. Sears’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “First, that between July 10, 2006 and July 11, 2006, in the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri, the defendant communicated with Officer Stough, via the internet, suggesting that she meet with him to engage in sexual conduct, and the defendant believed that Officer Stough was a 14 year old child, and Second, that such conduct was a substantial step toward the commission of the offense of enticement of a child by attempting to entice a person less than fifteen years of age to engage in sexual conduct, and Third, that defendant engaged in such conduct for the purpose of committing such enticement of a child, and Fourth, that the defendant was twenty-one years of age or older.”

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