Owsley v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Kentucky Milk Marketing & Anti-Monopoly Commission v. Borden Co. · Pace v. Commonwealth · Carrigan v. Fiscal Court of Fulton County · Scalf v. Pursifull · Hunt-Forbes Construction Co. v. Jordan's Adm'x
Most-quoted passages
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“[w]e think there is a reasonable basis in the legislature's contrasting sexual offenders who are strangers or mere acquaintances of the abused child from those who abuse not only the child, but their advantageous position as a person who society teaches the child to regard as an adult role model.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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