130 Md. App. 89 - Galloway v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
May 2004
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Grayned v. City of Rockford
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The crucial question ... is whether the [statute] sweeps within its prohibitions what may not be punished under the First and Fourteenth amendments. The concern is that an overbroad statute may, by that very fact, have a chilling effect on free expression. That is, if a statute is to be struck down as overbroad, it must appear that the statute’s very existence will inhibit free expression. The doctrine is ‘strong medicine’ and should be applied sparingly. It should not be invoked when a limiting construction can be placed on the statute. Because the over breadth doctrine involves a challenge to the facial validity of a statute, a court should not resort to it unless there is a realistic danger that the statute itself will significantly compromise recognized first amendment protection of parties not before the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Galloway v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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