Cunningham v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A statute which forbids the doing of an act in terms so vague that people of common intelligence must necessarily guess as to its meaning violates the first essential of due process, the notion of fair notice or warning.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sheriff v. Vlasak · Sereika v. State