State v. Blaser’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

31 state decisions

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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Which of these are defendants charged with paying less than the current rate of per diem wages? What does the prosecution contend was the current rate of per diem wages for such persons, and what was paid by defendant? These are not stated in the information. How were defendants to know what specific charge was made against them? It is fundamental that an information should charge an offense with such certainty that the defendant may know the offense with which he is charged with such certainty as to prepare to meet it. The information in this case does not do that.” (p. 456.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Ross

2. ““ ‘That the terms of a penal statute creating a new offense 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.’ (p. 391.)” (p. 448.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Carr

3. ““ ‘1. A criminal statute which either forbids or requires the doing of an act in terms so vague that men of common intelligence must guess at its meaning and differ as to its application, lacks the first essential of due process of law. . . .’”(1. c. 448.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Hill