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State v. Leary’s Empirical Analysis

1991

Citation profile

39
cited by 39 later decisions
1
states following
October 2023
most recently cited

39 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably Fishbein v. Kozlowski (1999), State v. Smith (1991)

39 state decisions

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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 Buckley v. Valeo · State v. Golding · United States v. Harriss · Smith v. Goguen · Bates v. State Bar of Arizona

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.

  1. “[a]s a matter of the due process required by our federal and state constitutions, a penal statute must be sufficiently definite to enable a person to know what conduct he must avoid.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[n]o person shall engage in unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in the conduct of any trade or commerce.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “The equal protection provisions of the federal and state constitutions have the same meaning and limitations.”
    2 later decisions 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.