307 So. 2d 332 - State v. Heck’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2014
14 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 Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · United States v. Harriss · Coates v. City of Cincinnati · Gooding v. Wilson · United States v. Petrillo
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.
“"In testing constitutionality, the statute should be given `a genuine construction, according to the fair import of . . . [its] words, taken in their usual sense, in connection with the context.' LSA-R.S. 14:3; State v. Truby, 211 La. 178 , 29 So.2d 758 (1947). "If, because of vagueness, the statute fails to give a person of ordinary intelligence fair notice that his conduct is criminal, it violates the constitutional safeguards. United States v. Harriss, 347 U.S. 612 , 74 S.Ct. 808 , 98 L.Ed. 989 (1953); City of Shreveport v. Brewer, 225 La. 93 , 72 So.2d 308 (1954). "This principle, however, does not invariably require a detailed specification of the various ways in which the crime can be committed. In the absence of detailed specification, a statute is nonetheless valid if the phraseology has a well known or commonly understood meaning. City of Baton Rouge v. Norman, La., 290 So.2d 865 (1974); State v. Evans, 214 La. 472 , 38 So.2d 140 (1948); State v. Saibold, 213 La. 415 , 34 So.2d 909 (1948); State v. Varnado, 208 La. 319 , 23 So.2d 106 (1944); State v. Pete, 206 La. 1078 , 20 So.2d 368 (1944); 10 La.L. Rev. 198."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[as would] foreseeably disturb or alarm the public”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . [T]he legislature may employ generic terms. Cumbersome enumeration or explicit delineation of all possible situations is not required. `The enumeration in a statute of every item or variation in conduct is frequently impossible.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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