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1977

Citation profile

27
cited by 27 later decisions
5
states following
February 2021
most recently cited

27 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably 96 So. 3d 412 - State v. Adkins (2012), Dawkins v. State (1988)

27 state decisions

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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 Smith v. People of the State of California · United States v. Dotterweich · United States v. Balint · Radke v. State · 46 Ala. App. 722 - Parks v. State

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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “It has become common to impose strict criminal liability in connection with a variety of regulatory statutes for violation of what are commonly called 'public welfare offenses.' Perkins, Criminal Law, 2d Ed., Ch. 7, Strict Liability (1969); Hall, General Principles of Criminal Law, 2d Ed., Ch. 10, Strict Liability (1960). The regulatory statutes encompass such fields as:”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Ex Parte Harper · 666 So. 2d 101 - Smith v. City of Tuscaloosa
  2. “[i]n such a case as this, the desirability of efficient enforcement of regulatory statutes must give way to the traditional requirement that criminal sanction be imposed only for blameworthy conduct in order to comply with the requirements of due process of law.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Ex Parte Harper · 429 So. 2d 1121 - McCrary v. State
  3. “knowledge [was] an essential element of the offense.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Ex Parte Harper · 507 So. 2d 558 - Korreckt 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.