State v. Boettger’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(a) A criminal threat is any threat to: (1) Commit violence communicated with intent to place another in fear, or to cause the evacuation, lock down or disruption in regular, ongoing activities of any building, place of assembly or facility of transportation, or in reckless disregard of the risk of causing such fear or evacuation, lock down or disruption in regular, ongoing activities.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 59 Kan. App. 2d 49 - State v. Stevenson

2. “[t]he provision in K.S.A. 2018 Supp. 21-5415(a)(1), allowing for a conviction if a threat of violence is made in reckless disregard for causing fear, is unconstitutionally overbroad because it punishes conduct that is constitutionally protected under some circumstances.”

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

3. “The general rule [requiring standing] does not apply . . . when a litigant brings an overbreadth challenge that seeks to protect First Amendment rights, even those of third parties.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. City of Wichita v. Trotter