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259 So. 2d 139 - State v. Magee’s Empirical Analysis

1972

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
October 1990
most recently cited

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

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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 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.

  1. “"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
  2. “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
  3. “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.