State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2016
14 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 State v. Ricehill · State v. Trieb · State v. Ronngren · State v. Abrahamson · Resnick v. State
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"12.1-20-03. Gross sexual imposition. "1. A person who engages in a sexual act with another, or who causes another to engage in a sexual act, is guilty of an offense if: a. He compels the victim to submit by force or by threat of imminent death, serious bodily injury, or kidnapping, to be inflicted on any human being; b. He or someone with his knowledge has substantially impaired the victim's power to appraise or control his or her conduct by administering or employing without his or her knowledge intoxicants or other means with intent to prevent resistance; c. He knows that the victim is unaware that a sexual act is being committed upon him or her; d. The victim is less than fifteen years old; or e. He knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the other person suffers from a mental disease or defect which renders him or her incapable of understanding the nature of his or her conduct. "2. A person who engages in sexual contact with another, or who causes another to en gage in sexual contact, is guilty of an offense if: a. The victim is less than fifteen years old; or b. He compels the victim to submit by force or by threat of imminent death, serious bodily injury, or kidnapping, to be inflicted on any human being. “3. An offense under this section is a class A felony if in the course of the offense the actor inflicts serious bodily injury upon the victim, or if his conduct violates subdivision a or d of subsection 1. Otherwise the offense is a class B felony.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sayler
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.