State v. Defrances’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2001
21 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 Grayned v. City of Rockford · Miller v. California · Grayned v. City of Rockford · State v. Truby · State v. Rose
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a person of ordinary intelligence ... fair notice of what conduct is forbidden....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The articles of this Code cannot be extended by analogy so as to create crimes not provided for herein; however, in order to promote justice and to effect the objects of the law, all of its provisions shall be given a genuine construction, according to the fair import of their words, taken in their usual sense, in connection with the context, and with reference to the purpose of the provision."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Keeping a disorderly place is the intentional maintaining of a place to be used habitually for any illegal purpose or any immoral sexual purpose.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.