State v. Rogers’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 state decisions

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. “Clear and comprehensible legislation is a fundamental prerequisite of due process of law. . . . Vague laws are unconstitutional even if they fail to touch constitutionally protected conduct, because unclear or incomprehensible legislation places both citizens and law enforcement officials in an untenable position. Vague laws deprive citizens of adequate notice of proscribed conduct, and fail to provide officials with guidelines sufficient to prevent arbitrary and erratic enforcement. [ 94 N.J. at 118 , 462 A. 2d 573 (internal citations omitted).]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 421 N.J. Super. 75 - Communications Workers v. State

2. “[I]f a law is so vague `that persons of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application,' it is considered void and unenforceable.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 375 N.J. Super. 624 - State v. Clarksburg Inn

3. “is grounded in concepts of fairness, and `requires that a law be sufficiently clear to apprise an ordinary person of its reach.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 408 N.J. Super. 412 - State v. Moran