33 Or. App. 173 - State v. Sanderson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2004
10 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.
Most-quoted passages
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“people who consistently appear late for appointments engage in a course of conduct which alarms or seriously annoys others for no legitimate purpose. The effect of a series of obscenely threatening telephone calls could be similarly described. It is inconceivable that the legislature could have intended the former case to be a crime, but entirely conceivable that the latter case could be considered criminal, yet the statute describes both offenses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"* * * Thus, it appears that the legislature used deliberately general language to create a statute elastic enough to encompass a wide range of undefined conduct. It succeeded all too well. Because the legislative purpose in enacting the statute provides no basis for judicial narrowing of its scope, the statute is not susceptible to salvation by interpretation and it must be set aside. * * *"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"* * * The basic deficiency is that the phrase `alarms or seriously annoys' gives no basis to distinguish between anti-social conduct which was intended to be prohibited and socially tolerable conduct which would not reasonably have been intended to be subject to criminal sanction. This is for two reasons: The over-generality of the language and its subjective quality."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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