State v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2019
6 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 Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Kolender v. Lawson · State v. Risdal · State v. Spargo · Meier 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[c]ounselor or therapist' means a physician, psychologist ... member of the clergy, or any other person, whether or not licensed or registered by the state, who provides or purports to provide mental health services.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]ny sexual conduct, with an emotionally dependent patient or client ... for the purpose of arousing or satisfying the sexual desires of the counselor or therapist ... includ[ing] ... kissing”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Doe v. Hartz Doe“emphasized that persons acting in professional roles 'have a disproportionate influence on those they serve' and thus have a responsibility to scrupulously observe the bounds of propriety.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Doe v. Hartz Doe
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.