22 Utah 2d 343 - State v. Shondel’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
107 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably People v. Marcy (1981), State v. Piazza (1992)
107 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 Lanzetta v. State New Jersey · United States v. Universal C. I. T. Credit Corp. · United States v. L. Cohen Grocery Co. · John McDonald v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · 8 Utah 2d 314 - State v. Twitchell
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... The well-established rule is that a statute creating a crime should be sufficiently certain that persons of ordinary intelligence who desire to obey the law may know how to conduct themselves in conformity with it. A fair and logical concomitant of that rule is that such a penal statute should be similarly clear, specific and understandable as to the penalty imposed for its violation. Related to the doctrine just stated is the rule that where there is doubt or uncertainty as to which of two punishments is applicable to an offense an accused is entitled to the benefit of the lesser." State v. Shondel, 22 Utah 2d 343, 346 , 453 P.2d 146, 148 (1969).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Perry · State v. Vogt“generally-recognized rule that where there is conflict between two legislative acts the latest will ordinarily prevail.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ainsworth“the equal protection [clause] requires that [our laws] affect alike all persons similarly situated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Honie
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.