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45 Wash. App. 330 - State v. Abbott’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
December 2007
most recently cited

9 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on In re Disbarment of Kleindienst · 93 Wash. 2d 148 - State v. Holsworth · 96 Wash. 2d 373 - State v. Cleppe · 91 Wash. 2d 580 - State v. Stroh · 30 Wash. App. 443 - State v. Miller

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

  1. “The Legislature has chosen a specific means to combat the social evil of carnal abuse or exploitation of children by persons more than 2 years older than themselves. We will not impose any additional burdens upon the State than those mandated by statute.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “'Sexual contact' means any touching of the sexual or other intimate parts of a person done for the purpose of gratifying sexual desire of either party.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.