People v. Uplinger’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2013 · most notably Amore v. Novarro (2010), Hardwick v. Bowers (1985)
14 federal appellate · 1 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.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. Loiters, remains or wanders about in a public place for the purpose of begging; or 2. Loiters or remains in a public place for the purpose of gambling with cards, dice or other gambling paraphernalia; or 3. Loiters or remains in a public place for the purpose of engaging, or soliciting another person to engage, in deviate sexual intercourse or other sexual behavior of a deviate nature; or ... 5. Loiters or remains in or about school grounds, a college or university building or grounds, not having any reason or relationship involving custody of or responsibility for a pupil or student, or any other specific, legitimate reason for being there, and not having written permission from anyone authorized to grant the same; or 6. Loiters or remains in any transportation facility, unless specifically authorized to do so, for the purpose of soliciting or engaging in any business, trade or commercial transactions involving the sale of merchandise or services, or for the purpose of entertaining persons by singing, dancing or playing any musical instrument; or 7. Loiters or remains in any transportation facility, or is found sleeping therein, and is unable to give a satisfactory explanation of his presence....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Amore v. Novarro · Amore v. Novarro“a companion statute to the consensual sodomy statute . . . which criminalized acts of deviate sexual intercourse between consenting adults”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. New York v. Uplinger“to punish conduct anticipatory to the act of consensual sodomy,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. New York v. Uplinger
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.