Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 11 state decisions

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

1. “a knowing or an intentional course of conduct involving repeated or continuing harassment of another person that would cause a reasonable person to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, or threatened and that actually causes the victim to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, or threatened.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. S.B. v. Seymour Community Schools · Smith v. State

2. “The harassment prohibited by Indiana’s anti-stalking law must be either “repeated” or “continuing.” “Repeat” is defined in WEBSTER’S NINTH NEW COLLEGIATE DICTIONARY (1985) as “to make, do, or perform again.” Id. at 998. In considering the meaning of the term “repeatedly” in Alabama’s stalking statute, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals held that the term means “more than once.” State v. Randall, 669 So.2d 228, 227 (Ala.Crim.App.1995); accord People v. Heilman, 25 Cal.App.4th 391, 400 , 30 Cal.Rptr.2d 422 (1994) (repeatedly means “more than one time”). Likewise, we conclude that the term “repeated” in Indiana’s anti-stalking law means “more than once.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Nicholson v. State · Rodney W. Falls v. State of Indiana

3. “Because this behavior occurred more than once, it was repeated. It makes no difference that the behavior occurred over a short period of time. If the legislature had wanted to place parameters on the period of time over which such behavior could occur, it could have done so. See Ark.Code Ann. § 5-71-229 (Michie 1997) (course of conduct defined as “a pattern of conduct composed of two (2) or more acts separated by at least thirty-six (36) hours, but occurring within one (1) year”).”

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