State v. Brammer’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably United States v. Renville (1985), State v. Nelson (1998)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 59 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 United States v. Castenada · State v. Shank & Bradley · Kramer v. United States · State v. Dietz · State v. Barr
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he legislature intended the sexual contact statute to apply to touching incidental to rape. The obvious intent of the legislature is to deal with those who molest young children for sexual gratification without raping them. Sexual contact is a separate and distinct offense. The legislature imposed a more severe penalty for it than for rape.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. King v. Solem · State v. Darby“Plain errors or defects affecting substantial rights may be noticed although they were not brought to the attention of a court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Robinson v. Solem · State v. Vogel“[T]he plain error rule must be applied cautiously and only in exceptional circumstances.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Davi · State v. Buller
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.