Lanzetta v. State New Jersey’s Empirical Analysis
306 U.S. 451 · 1939
Citation profile
506 federal appellate · 147 district · 1,311 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,647 later decisions (197 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera (1966), Grayned v. City of Rockford (1972)
506 federal appellate · 147 district · 1,311 state decisions — followed in 47 states
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 Connally v. General Construction Co. · Lovell v. City of Griffin · Stromberg v. People of State of California · Nash v. United States
Cited together with Connally v. General Construction Co. · United States v. Harriss · Winters v. People of State of New York · Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville · Kolender v. Lawson
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 2,647 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No one may be required at peril of life, liberty or property to speculate as to the meaning of penal statutes. All are entitled to be informed as to what the State commands or forbids.”
113 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If on its face the challenged provision is repugnant to the due process clause, specification of details of the offense intended to be charged would not serve to validate it. It is the statute, not the accusation under it, that prescribes the rule to govern conduct and warns against transgression.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Leach v. State · State v. Bitt“Any person not engaged in any lawful occupation, known to be a member of any gang consisting of two or more persons, who has been convicted at least three times of being a disorderly person, or who has been convicted of any crime, in this or in any other State, is declared to be a gangster.”
10 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.