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← 304 KAN 192 - State v. Petersen-Beard

State v. Petersen-Beard’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

51
cited by 51 later decisions
3
states following
February 2025
most recently cited

2 district · 49 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 16901 (Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006) · 42 U.S.C. § 16911 · 42 U.S.C. § 16914 · 42 U.S.C. § 16915 · 42 U.S.C. § 16916 · 42 U.S.C. § 16918 · 42 U.S.C. § 16920 · 42 U.S.C. § 16921

Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Solem v. Helm · Lockhart v. Fretwell · Harmelin v. Michigan · Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez

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

  1. “the degree to which the regulatory scheme imposes a sanction that: (1) has historically been regarded as punishment; (2) constitutes an affirmative disability or restraint; (3) promotes the traditional aims of punishment; (4) is rationally connected to a nonpunitive purpose; (5) is excessive in relation to the identified nonpunitive purpose; (6) contains a sanction requiring a finding of scienter; and (7) applies the sanction to behavior that is already a crime.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “It is not uncommon for a prosecutor to entice a plea agreement from a defendant charged with a registration-qualifying sex offense by offering to amend the charge to a crime that will not require the defendant to register [under KORA].”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  3. “[I]f KORA's lifetime sex offender registration requirement is punishment for either ex post facto or double jeopardy purposes, it must necessarily also be punishment for Eighth Amendment purposes. The reverse would likewise be true.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence

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.