State v. Varela’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably In Re Pima County Juvenile Appeal No. 74802-2 (1990), State v. Getz (1997)
1 federal appellate · 44 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 Union Oil Co. v. California · State v. Bateman · Bateman v. Arizona · State v. Carr · 27 Cal. App. 3d 54 - People v. Poulin
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The basic rule in reviewing a statute for vagueness is to determine whether the offense is defined in terms that people of average intelligence can understand * *." State v. Varela, 120 Ariz. 596, 599 , 587 P.2d 1173, 1176 (1978).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A person may not urge the unconstitutionality of a statute unless he is harmfully affected by the application to him of the particular feature of the statute alleged to be violative of the constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Delk
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.