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← 200 NCAPP 561 - State v. Mello

State v. Mello’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
May 2016
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville · Lanzetta v. State New Jersey

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.

  1. “[w]hen examining the constitutional propriety of legislation, we presume that the statutes are constitutional, and resolve all doubts in favor of their constitutionality.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[w]hen raising an overbreadth challenge, the challenger has the right to argue the unconstitutionality of the law as to the rights of others, not just as the ordinance is applied to him. Broadrick v. Oklahoma, 413 U.S. 601 , 612, 93 S.Ct. 2908 , 37 L.Ed.2d 830 , 840 (1973).”
    1 later decision 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.