State v. Big Head’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably State v. Fauci (2007), Meyerink v. Northwestern Public Service Co. (1986)
4 federal appellate · 39 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 Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Kolender v. Lawson · United States v. Harriss · Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘A crime must be statutorily defined with definiteness and certainty. A statute which either forbids or requires the doing of an act in terms so vague that men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application violates the first essential of due process. A criminal statute must give a person of ordinary intelligence fair notice that his contemplated conduct is forbidden.’”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dale · State v. McGill“Defendant contends that the statute is void for vagueness and therefore violates his right to due process. Statutes violate due process when the prohibited act or omission is expressed in terms so vague that reasonable people of ordinary intelligence might apply them differently....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“it was too late to lock the barn door, the horses had departed”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fool Bull
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.