State v. Fowler’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The evidence in this case taken in a light most favorable to the State overwhelmingly supports the jury’s finding that the defendant’s conduct constituted a substantial step toward commission of statutory rape. . . . We would create a dangerous precedent by requiring that the defendant take delivery of the boy or actually begin some act that would approach sexual penetration. Once a pedophile purchases a child and takes the child into his possession, some damage has likely occurred. Moreover, the child is placed in a position of imminent danger from which the child may be powerless to protect himself or herself.”

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

2. “a young boy who was willing to run away from home and live with him”

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