State v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
2
states following
February 1988
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Grayned v. City of Rockford · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · United States v. Harriss · Parker v. Levy · Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, because we assume that man is free to steer between lawful and unlawful conduct, we insist that laws give the person of ordinary intelligence a reasonable opportunity to know what is prohibited, so that he may act accordingly.... Second, if arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement is to be prevented, laws must provide explicit standards for those who apply them.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“abut[s] upon sensitive areas of basic First Amendment freedoms,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“does not invalidate every statute which a reviewing court believes could have been drafted with greater precision. Many statutes will have some inherent vagueness, for “[i]n most English words and phrases there lurk uncertainties.” ... All the Due Process Clause requires is that the law give sufficient warning that men may conduct themselves so as to avoid that which is forbidden.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tocco
How this case has been treated — in progress
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