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← 169 Conn. 140 - Mitchell v. King

Mitchell v. King’s Empirical Analysis

1975

Citation profile

65
cited by 65 later decisions
1
states following
July 2003
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 61 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently July 2003 · most notably State v. Pickering (1980), State v. Chetcuti (1977)

2 federal appellate · 61 state decisions

2801975198019902000decided

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 Grayned v. City of Rockford · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Goss v. Lopez · Wood v. Strickland

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

  1. “A statute ... which forbids or requires conduct in terms so vague that persons of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application violates the first essential of due process. Baggett v. Bullitt, 377 U.S. 360 , 367 , 84 S.Ct. 1316 , 12 L.Ed.2d 377 ; Connally v. General Construction Co., 269 U.S. 385 , 391 , 46 S.Ct. 126 , 70 L.Ed. 322 .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Allen
  2. “The test is whether the language conveys sufficiently definite warning as to the proscribed conduct when measured by common understanding and practices.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Allen
  3. “lay down an intelligible principle to which the administrative body”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 1994 Conn. Super. Ct. 8528 - Hwang v. Amity Regional Board of Educ., No. Cv 94-0362420 S (Aug. 23, 1994)

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.