Brockmueller v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

49 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘Delinquency’ means any act which tends to debase or injure the morals, health or welfare of a child.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 16 Ariz. App. 251 - State v. Hixson · 8 Ariz. App. 514 - State v. Hunt

2. ““The Arizona statutes prohibit only the causing or encouraging of acts which have the effect of injuring the morals, health or welfare of a child. Such statutes have a long history of common-law interpretation which renders sufficiently clear and meaningful language which might otherwise be vague and uncertain. * * -+ We hold that the Arizona stat ■utes are sufficiently certain and definite to apprise men of ordinary intelligence of the conduct which the statute prohibits.” 86 Ariz. at 84 , 340 P.2d at 994 .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 16 Ariz. App. 251 - State v. Hixson · 7 Ariz. App. 210 - State v. Cutshaw

3. “[e]ven in criminal statutes, the language adopted need not afford an interpretation approaching mathematical certainty,”

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