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← 643 SW2D 302 - State v. Seddens

State v. Seddens’s Empirical Analysis

1982

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
May 1984
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. Holliman · State v. Harris · State v. Vernor · State v. Newhart · State v. Foster

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

  1. “As to Count I, (burglary), if you find and believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt: First, that on or about July 14, 1981, at approximately 2:00 a.m., in the County of Jackson, State of Missouri, the defendant knowingly entered unlawfully in an inhabitable structure located at 603 West 39th Street Terrace, Apartment 4, and possessed by Susan V. Watkins, and Second, that defendant did so for the purpose of committing the crime of rape therein_(emphasis added).”
    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.