State v. Comeaux’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably State v. Meinert (1979), 486 So. 2d 101 - State v. Brenner (1986)
31 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. Harriss · 55 Cal. 2d 328 - People v. Burton · State v. Truby · State v. Varnado · State v. Pete
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Cruelty to juveniles is the intentional or criminally negligent mistreatment or neglect, by anyone over the age of seventeen, of any child under the age of seventeen whereby unjustifiable pain or suffering is caused to said child. Lack of knowledge of the child's age shall not be a defense.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Barr · State v. Meinert“See Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Verbo abuse. In our opinion,”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. CSD · State v. Sedlock“... gives a person of ordinary intelligence fair notice of what conduct is criminal.”
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.