259 So. 2d 139 - State v. Magee’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 1990
3 federal appellate · 11 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 Cline v. Frink Dairy Co. · Brock v. Hardie · 255 So. 2d 675 - Chesebrough v. State · Locklin v. Pridgeon · 257 So. 2d 21 - Franklin v. State
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We find that the language does meet the test of common understanding [and] is constitutional... ." "... [N]ot every detail is required to be set forth in such a statute so long as the prohibitive conduct is in such language that it is understood by the average citizen. The terms `public decency' and `corrupt the public morals' are terms of general understanding... ." "Under such generally understood language, the specific conduct will of course vary and is made fully known to a defendant in the charges filed against him, so that he is made aware against what conduct he must defend." [5]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“whoever commits such acts as are of a nature to corrupt the public morals or outrage the sense of public decency,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Under such generally understood language, the specific conduct will of course vary and is made fully known to a defendant in the charges filed against him, so that he is made aware against what conduct he must defend.”
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.