State v. Jolivet’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “At a grocery store parking lot, the defendant forced his victim at gunpoint to enter his car. The defendant claimed he only wanted money and demanded the victim’s purse, which she yielded to him. He then drove her several blocks to a motel where the sexual assault, rape, and sodomy were committed at gunpoint and under threats of death to the victim. Later, on the pretext of going shopping with the defendant to buy presents, the victim was able to induce the defendant to drive her back to the store. However, the defendant forced the victim to remain with him while returning to the store. Only after their return to the store parking lot was the victim able to persuade the defendant to release her, promising to go later to Canada with him. Although allowing her to return to her car, the defendant followed- her for several blocks after she drove out of the parking lot.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jolivet v. Cook

2. “a sufficiently substantial period of time elapsed, both before and after the assault and rape, in which the victim was restrained against her will and subjected to a substantial risk of harm from the defendant's threats and loaded gun.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Finlayson

3. “[t]he evidence sufficiently supports the charge of aggravated kidnaping as an act separate from the other charges.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Finlayson