Arnold v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The indictment alleged that appellant: [D]id then and there intentionally, with intent to arouse and gratify the sexual desire of said defendant, by threats and force, without the consent of [D_C_] engage in deviate sexual intercourse with the said [D_ C_] by then and there placing his genitals in contact with the anus of the said [D_C_] who was not his spouse, and in the course of said criminal episode the defendant, in the presence of [D_ C_], by acts, words, and deeds threatened to cause death and serious bodily injury to be inflicted on [D_ C_] and the defendant by acts, words, and deeds placed [D_ C_] in fear of death and serious bodily injury to be imminently inflicted on [D_ C_]_”

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