Lo, Ex Parte John Christopher’s Empirical Analysis

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76 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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(b) A person commits an offense if the person, with the intent to harm or defraud another, obtains, possesses, transfers, or uses an item of: (1) identifying information of another person without the other person’s consent; (2) information concerning a deceased natural person, including a stillborn infant or fetus, that would be identifying information of that person were that person alive, if the item of information is obtained, possessed, transferred, or used without legal authorization; or (3) identifying information of a child younger than 18 years of age.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ex parte Beck · April Collins v. State

2. “A person who is 17 years of age or older commits an offense if, with intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person, the person, over the internet, by electronic mail or text message or other electronic message service or system, or through a commercial online service, intentionally: (1) communicates in a sexually explicit manner with a minor; or (2) distributes sexually explicit material to a minor.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ex parte Beck · State v. Abigail Marie Stubbs

3. “According to the First Amendment overbreadth doctrine, a statute is facially invalid if it prohibits a 'substantial' amount of protected speech 'judged in relation to the statute's plainly legitimate sweep.'”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ex parte Mitcham · Jeffrey Wayne Fujisaka v. State