State v. Proto’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably State v. Indrisano (1994), Bishop v. Kelly (1988)
77 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
Applies 2 U.S.C. § 431 (§ 301 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971) · 2 U.S.C. § 59
Relies on Buckley v. Valeo · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Grayned v. City of Rockford · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person acts `wilfully' when he performs an act in a manner that is `intentional, wrongful and without just cause or excuse.' Rogers v. Doody, 119 Conn. 532 , 534 , 178 A. 51 (1935); Mingachos v. CBS, Inc., 196 Conn. 91 , 102 , 491 A.2d 368 (1985); Soucy v. Wysocki, 139 Conn. 622 , 628 , 96 A.2d 225 (1953).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] statute that proscribes certain conduct, even though it may have some permissible applications, sweeps within its proscription conduct protected by the first amendment. . . .Overbroad statutes, like vague ones, inhibit the exercise of constitutionally protected conduct. (Citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[V]ague laws may cause citizens to avoid constitutionally protected conduct for fear of incurring criminal prosecution.”
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.