State v. Rodgers’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably State v. Richie (1998), State v. Buch (1996)
30 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 Grayned v. City of Rockford · United States v. Harriss · Lanzetta v. State New Jersey · United States v. Universal C. I. T. Credit Corp. · McBoyle v. United States
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“with respect to the buttocks, it is not uncommon for youth team coaches to give their players a congratulatory pat on the buttocks in recognition of a good play or outstanding effort. Parents hugging or carrying a young child may also place then-hands on the child’s buttocks. In these situations, adults are knowingly touching the buttocks of another person who is less than fourteen years old. But because of the context, it would be unreasonable to regard the child’s buttocks as an “intimate part” for purposes of applying the sexual assault statutes. In these contexts, the child’s buttocks would not be a body part “typically associated with sexual relations.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Silver“When choice has to be made between two readings of what conduct the legislature has made a crime, it is appropriate, before we choose the harsher alternative, to require that the legislature should have spoken in language that is clear and definite.... [Thus, when] [i]t is virtually self-evident that the drafters of the [HPC] could easily have spoken in clearer and more definite terms ... [a]nd when language reasonably susceptible of two constructions is used in a penal law[,] ordinarily that construction which is more favorable to the offender will be adopted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Buch“Clearly, there is “touching” within the meaning of the statute if the sexual or other intimate part itself were rubbed. The touching here, however, was through the victim’s clothes. Granted, the relevant language can readily be construed to include such conduct within its proscriptions. But it is subject also, as the defendant maintains, to a reading that contact with a person’s clothed breasts does not constitute “sexual contact.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Pearson
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.