354 So. 2d 866 - Faust v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 2011
9 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 United States v. Reese · Brock v. Hardie · State v. Wershow · 111 So. 2d 439 - Harrell's Candy Kitchen, Inc. v. SARASOTA-MANATEE AIR. AUTH. · 349 So. 2d 150 - State v. Gale Distributors, Inc.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The determination that a parent, or one standing in the position of a parent, has overstepped the bounds of permissible conduct in the discipline of a child presupposes either that the punishment was motivated by malice, and not by an educational purpose; that it was inflicted upon frivolous pretenses; that it was excessive, cruel or merciless; or that it has resulted in `great bodily harm, permanent disability, or permanent disfigurement'.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. In each of these cases the court found the particular statute not unconstitutionally vague since a person of ordinary intelligence can ascertain what conduct is prohibited by the act. In the Alabama statute, the use of the words”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it conveys a sufficient warning to those subject to its provisions what conduct on their part will render them liable to its penalties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Herbert v. State
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.