State v. Wareham’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Valcarce v. Fitzgerald (1998), State v. Thomas (1998)
48 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 Spencer v. State of Texas a Bell · Marshall v. Lonberger · 27 Cal. 3d 303 - People v. Thompson · State v. Bishop · State v. Knight
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“brief wholly lack[ed] legal analysis and authority”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(1) A person commits sexual abuse of a child, if, under circumstances not amounting to rape of a child, object rape of a child, or sodomy upon a child or an attempt to commit any of these offenses, the actor touches the anus, buttocks, or genitalia of a child who is under the age of 14, or touches the breast of a female child who is under the age of 14, or otherwise takes indecent liberties with a child, or causes a child to take indecent liberties with the actor or another, with intent to cause substantial emotional or bodily pain to any person or with the intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person regardless of the sex of any participant. (2) Sexual abuse of a child is punishable as a felony of the second degree. (3) A person commits aggravated sexual abuse of a child when in conjunc tion with the offense described in Subsection (1) any of the following circumstances have been charged and admitted or found true in the action for the offense: [[Image here]] (g) The accused committed, in Utah or elsewhere, more than five separate acts, which if committed in Utah would constitute an offense described in this chapter, and were committed at the same time, or during the same course of conduct, or before or after the instant offense; [[Image here]] (4) Aggravated sexual abuse of a child is punishable as a felony of the first degree by imprisonment in the state prison for a term which is a minimum mandatory term of S, 6, or 9 years and which may be for life.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“brief totally fails to provide any reasons io support the contention that”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.