State v. Saunders’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably H.E.S. v. J.C.S. (2003), State v. Saunders (1997)
40 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 Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Rav v. City of St Paul Minnesota · Bates v. State Bar of Arizona · City of Houston v. Hill · United States v. National Dairy Products Corp.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the reality in which the [statutory] provision is to be applied.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] criminal statute is not impermissibly vague so long as a person of ordinary intelligence may reasonably determine what conduct is prohibited so that he or she may act in conformity with the law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“essentially a procedural due process concept grounded in notions of fair play.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.