Bolen v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““(a) A person who communicates a threat to another person, with the intent that: (1) The other person engage in conduct against his will; or (2) The other person be placed in fear of retaliation for a prior lawful act; commits intimidation, a class A misdemeanor. “(b) However, the offense is a: (1) class D felony if: (A) That threat is to commit a forcible felony; or (B) The person to whom the threat is communicated: (i) Is á law enforcement officer; (ii) Is a judge or bailiff of any court; or (iii) Is a witness (or the spouse or child of a witness) in any pending criminal proceeding against the person making the threat; and (2) class C felony if, while committing it, the person draws or uses a deadly weapon. “(c) ‘Threat’ means an expression, by words or action, of an intention to: (1) Unlawfully injure the person threatened or another person, or damage property; (2) Unlawfully subject a person to physical confinement or restraint; (3) Commit a crime; (4) Unlawfully withhold official action, or cause such withholding; (5) Unlawfully withhold testimony or information with respect to another person’s legal claim or defense, except for a reasonable claim for witness fees or expenses; (6) Expose the person threatened to hatred, contempt, disgrace, or ridicule; or (7) Falsely harm the credit or business reputation of the person threatened.””

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

2. ““The testimony objected to discloses that on June 27, 1980 Bolen called Yoder ‘a little Amish son-of-a-bitch’ and that Bolen ‘intended to get him.’ Record at 294. Hammer also testified that on June 28, 1980 Bolen talked in general terms about Yoder being the cause of all his problems. Bolen then took Hammer to the back of his van and showed him a clip from an automatic weapon and stated, ‘I’m going to kill him,’ referring to Yo-der. Record at 297. Although these statements may not have necessarily constituted a crime inasmuch as Yoder was not present at the time, they show that Bolen had talked of killing Yoder shortly before he actually threatened Yoder. A material issue in this case was whether Bolen actually told Yoder that he would kill him. The evidence is therefore relevant.” 430 N.E.2d at 401 .”

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

3. “A person who communicates a threat to another person, with the intent that the other person engage in conduct against his will ... commits intimidation, a Class A misdemeanor, (c) “Threat” means an expression, by words or action, of an intention to (7) falsely harm the credit or business reputation of the person threatened.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 9 F. Supp. 2d 1007 - Butts v. Oce-USA, Inc.