Hines v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(a) A person commits an offense if he knowingly engages in any of the following acts in a public place or, if not in a public place, he is reckless about whether another is present who will be offended or alarmed by his ... (3) act of sexual contact ...”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Smykay v. State · Hines v. State

2. “"... said defendant was then and there reckless about whether another was present who would be offended and alarmed by his act of sexual contact in that he was aware of but consiously (sic) disregarded a substantial and unjustifiable risk that ["X”], a child younger than 17 years of age and not the spouse of the defendant, was present and that she would be offended and alarmed by his act of sexual contact and [“X”] was present and offended and alarmed by the defendant’s act of sexual contact.””

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