State v. Locks’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2015
22 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 Roth v. United States · Manual Enterprises, Inc. v. Day · State v. Little · Dorsey v. State · State v. Broussard
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In the instant case in reading A.R.S. § 13-827, subd. A to the jury the trial court impliedly invited the jury to construe §§ 13-821 and 13-822 by giving to those sections a liberal meaning in favor of the state to protect the children of the state from any person whom the jury might believe had improperly connected himself in a fashion to encourage the delinquency of a child. No more roving unrestrained authority to convict the defendant of the crime charged could possibly have been authorized, an authority unrestrained by any of the other accepted modes for the determination of the meaning of the language used in a statute. "While we have construed the language of §§ 13-821 and 13-822 as being broad enough to sustain a conviction for the crime charged we, of course, can not say with certainty that under the instructions this was the basis for the jury's verdict. What liberal concepts the jury attached to the language of the legislature to protect children is impossible to tell. Of what it in fact convicted the defendant is unknown." 94 Ariz. at 138 , 382 P.2d at 244 . (emphasis added).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"A. This article shall be liberally construed in favor of the state for the protection of the child from neglect or omission of parental duty toward the child, and also to protect children of the state from the effects of the improper conduct, acts or bad example of any person which may be calculated to cause, encourage, or contribute to, the dependency or delinquency of children, although such person is in no way related to the child." (Emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ * * * These magazines principally contain pictures of the female in various states of disarray, some more so than others. In some there are interspersed printed articles, factional and fictional, dealing with sex in heavily disguised language. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Locks
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.