State v. Larson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

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

1. “I would like to drop the charges against Kevin Scott Larson for alleged sexual misconduct. The reasons for this request are as follows: 1. I was not hurt physically or psychologically in this episode. 2. Kevin is the father of my children, and no purpose is going to be served by sending him to prison and causing a rift between the children and their father for life. 3. The statutes involved in 1st and 3rd degree sexual misconduct indicate serious misconduct using coercion, threats and the like. I do not believe his conduct was so serious as to fall within these charges. 4. I believe a trial is likely to be costly and is going to interfere with both of our lives, which we are attempting to get straight. 5. Mr. Larson’s relations with me was close enough so that this had elements of a family dispute. I hope you will seriously consider this in dropping or otherwise disposing of these charges.”

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