Roberson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably 514 So. 2d 295 - Faraga v. State (1987), 737 So. 2d 322 - Puckett v. State (1999)
26 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 United States v. Harriss · Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville · Colautti v. Franklin · 472 So. 2d 386 - Hines v. State · 236 So. 2d 408 - Wright v. State
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] person is guilty of sexual battery if he or she engages in sexual penetration with another person without his or her consent.... or a child under the age of fourteen (14) years.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State · Calhoun v. State“§ 97-3-95 A person is guilty of sexual battery if he or she engages in sexual penetration with: (a) Another person without his or her consent; (b) A mentally defective, mentally incapacitated or physically helpless person; or (c) A child under the age of twelve (12) years. § 97-3-97(a) (a) "Sexual penetration" includes cunnilingus, fellatio, buggery or pederasty, any penetration of the genital or anal openings of another person's body by any part of a person's body, and insertion of any object into the genital or anal openings of another person's body.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]f [the] general class of offenses can be made constitutionally definite by a reasonable construction of the statute, this Court is under a duty to give the statute that construction.”
5 later decisions 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.