Short v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 44 state decisions

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

1. “ordinary and usually accepted meaning in common language,”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hopkins v. Jegley · Krol v. State

2. “The 1988 Supplemental Commentary to Ark. Code Ann. § 5-14-103 (Repl. 1995) notes that the rape statute “now imposes strict liability where the victim is less than 14 years of age.” A strict-liability offense is “[a] crime that does not require a mens rea element. . . .” Black's Law Dictionary 378 (7th ed. 1999).”

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

3. “When the criminality of conduct depends on a child being below the age of fourteen (14) years, it is no defense that the actor did not know the age of the child, or reasonably believed the child to be fourteen (14) years of age or older.”

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