State v. MacGuire’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably State v. Green (2004), Lawrence v. State (2007)
37 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 Roe v. Wade · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Kolender v. Lawson · Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. P Casey P Casey
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“need not look beyond the plain language unless we find some ambiguity.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[T]he Utah Supreme Court has held that a statute is not unconstitutionally vague if it is sufficiently explicit to inform the ordinary reader what conduct is prohibited and does so in a manner that does not encourage arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Salt · State v. Manwaring“a defendant must demonstrate either (1) that the statute[] doles] not provide 'the kind of notice that enables ordinary people to understand what conduct [is prohibited], or (2) that the statute[ ] 'encourage{[s] arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.