State v. Serpente’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 124 Wash. 2d 789 - PUD DISTRICT NO. 1, KLICKITAT COUNTY v. International Insurance Co. (1994), Mahler v. Szucs (1998)
58 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 Scott v. Rosenberg · Kyriaco v. United States · State v. Bishop · 7 Cal. 3d 362 - In Re Smith · 22 Utah 2d 343 - State v. Shondel
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'act of gross lewdness' as it appears in § 76-9-702.5, refers to an act of 'equal magnitude of gravity' as those acts 'specifically set forth in the statute.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Vogt · A.T. v. State“'flash' " or " 'moon' " her son's teacher. 768 P.2d at 995 . Because she did this in front of students who were under the age of fourteen, she was charged and convicted of lewdness involving a child, in violation of Utah Code Ann. § 76-9-702.5 (1988). See Serpente, 768 P.2d at 995 . 1 12 Section 76-9-702.5 provided, in relevant part: A person is guilty of lewdness involving a child if the person under cireumstances not amounting to rape of a child, object rape of a child, sodomy upon a child, sexual abuse of a child, or an attempt to commit any of these offenses, performs an act of sexual intercourse or sodomy, exposes his or her genitals or private parts, masturbates, engages in trespassory voyeurism, or performs amy other act of gross lewdness, under cireumstances which he or she should know will likely cause affront or alarm, to, on, or in the presence of another who is under 14 years of age. Utah Code Ann. § 76-9-702.5 (1988) (emphasis added). 2 113 Serpente addressed whether the defendant's gesture amounted to an "act of gross lewdness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Vogt · A.T. v. State“where general words follow the enumeration of particular classes of things, the general words will be construed as applying only to things of the same general class as those enumerated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.