Cohen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Calvert v. Farmers Ins. Co. of Arizona (1985), State v. Sweet (1985)
77 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 American Federation of Labor Arizona State Federation of Labor v. · State v. General Daniel Morgan Post No. 548 · State v. General Daniel Morgan Post No. 548 · Hernandez v. Frohmiller · Southwest Engineering Co. v. Ernst
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That the terms of a penal statute * * * must be sufficiently explicit to inform those who are subject to it what conduct on their part will render them liable to its penalties is a well-recognized requirement, consonant alike with ordinary notions of fair play and the settled rules of law. And a statute which either forbids or requires the doing of an act in terms so vague that men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application violates the first essential of due process of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McNair“court[s] should avoid legislating a particular result by judicial construction”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re BS
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.