State v. Packard’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2001 · most notably Kneip v. Herseth (1974), Greaves v. State (1974)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 101 (Norris-LaGuardia Act)
Relies on Connally v. General Construction Co. · Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. · Lanzetta v. State New Jersey · Stromberg v. People of State of California · United States v. L. Cohen Grocery Co.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... It must be sufficiently definite (a) to inform persons of ordinary intelligence, who would be law abiding, what their conduct must be to conform to its requirements; (b) to advise a defendant accused of violating it just what constitutes the offense with which he is charged, and (c) to be susceptible of uniform interpretation and application by those charged with responsibility of applying and enforcing it. [4]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Blowers · Buhler v. Stone“It is recognized that statutes should not be declared unconstitutional if there is any reasonable basis upon which they may be sustained as falling within the constitutional framework [citations omitted], and that a statute will not be held void for uncertainty if any sort of sensible, practical effect may be given it. [Citations omitted.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“complements and makes more meaningful the other rights guaranteed as part of our constitutional liberties”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.