State v. Limpus’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably State v. Getz (1997), State v. Womack (1992)
42 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 Santobello v. New York · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Miller v. California · United States v. Peter A. Crusco and Phillip A. Cimmino. Appeal of Phillip Cimmino · State v. Bateman
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[d]ue process notions of fundamental fairness require that criminal offenses be defined in terms sufficient to give a person of ordinary intelligence fair notice that his contemplated conduct is forbidden by the statute. The underlying principle for the requirement is that no person should be required, at the risk of his liberty, to speculate as to the meaning of a criminal statute. Thus, “a statute which forbids * * * an act in terms so vague that men of common intelligence must necessarily guess as to 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. Womack““A. A person commits sexual exploitation of a minor by knowingly: (1) Recording, filming, photographing, developing, or duplicating any visual or print medium in which minors are engaged in sexual conduct. (2) Distributing, transporting, exhibiting, receiving, selling, purchasing, possessing or exchanging any visual or print medium in which minors are engaged in sexual conduct.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Shepler
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.