State v. Saucier’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 2018
15 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. Thibodeau · State v. Holt · State v. Sampson · State v. Stoddard
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.
“If a statute defining a crime in this code does not expressly prescribe a culpable mental state with respect to some or all of the elements of the crime, a culpable state of mind is nevertheless required... unless: A. The statute expressly provides that a person may be guilty of a crime without culpability as to those elements; or B. A legislative intent to impose liability without culpability as to those elements otherwise appears.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Day“based on the premise that one person cannot accidentally or innocently induce another person to engage in sexual intercourse by means of a threat.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Day“1. A person is guilty of unlawful sexual contact if he intentionally subjects another person, not his spouse, to any sexual contact_”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Reed
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.