State v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably State v. Bias (1988), State v. Fader (1984)
38 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 Grayned v. City of Rockford · Kolender v. Lawson · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Coates v. City of Cincinnati · United States v. Powell
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[must] define the criminal offense with sufficient definiteness [so] that ordinary people can understand what conduct is prohibited and [must be written] in a manner that does not encourage arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“it is not always possible to know with certainty when an offense or offenses occurred. This is especially true in cases of [sexual abuse] where there is a minor victim who does not complain to the authorities immediately.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ruberg v. State · State v. Warborg““Sexual contact” * * * includes any of the following acts committed without the complainant’s consent, except in those cases where consent is not a defense, and committed with sexual or aggressive intent: (i) the intentional touching by the actor of the complainant’s intimate parts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ohrtman
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.