364 So. 2d 416 - Chambers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Keser v. State (1985), 486 So. 2d 101 - State v. Brenner (1986)
35 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 · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Screws v. United States · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Russell v. United States
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A responsible person, as defined in section 26-15-2 , who shall torture, willfully abuse, cruelly beat or otherwise willfully maltreat any child under the age of 18 years shall, on conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one year nor more than 10 years."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The essential purpose of the `void for vagueness' doctrine is to warn individuals of the criminal consequences of their conduct. Williams v. United States , 341 U.S. 97 , 71 S.Ct. 576 , 95 L.Ed. 774 , decided April 23, 1951; Screws v. United States , 1945, 325 U.S. 91 , 103-104 , 65 S.Ct. 1031 , 1036 , 89 L.Ed. 1495 . This court has repeatedly stated that criminal statutes which fail to give due notice that an act has been made criminal before it is done are unconstitutional deprivations of due process of law, Lanzetta v. State of New Jersey , 1939, 306 U.S. 451 , 59 S.Ct. 618 , 83 L.Ed. 888 ; United States v. L. Cohen Grocery Co. , 1921, 255 U.S. 81 , 41 S.Ct. 298 , 65 L.Ed. 516 . "We have several times held that difficulty in determining whether certain marginal offenses are within the meaning of the language under attack as vague does not automatically render a statute unconstitutional for indefiniteness. United States v. Wurzback , 1930, 280 U.S. 396 , 399 , 50 S.Ct. 167 , 168 , 74 L.Ed. 508 . Impossible standards of specificity are not required. United States v. Petrillo , 1947, 332 U.S. 1 , 67 S.Ct. 1538 , 91 L.Ed. 1877 . The test is whether the language conveys sufficiently definite warning as to the proscribed conduct when measured by common understanding and practices. Connally v. General Construction Co. , 1926, 269 U.S. 385 , 46 S.Ct. 126 , 70 L.Ed. 322 ." [Quoting Jordan v. DeGeorge , 341 U.S. 223 , 230-231 , 71 S.Ct. 703 , 707-708 , 95 L.Ed. 886 (1951).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The indictment must contain the elements of the offense intended to be charged and sufficiently appraise the defendant of what he must be prepared to meet. Reading the indictment as a whole , the accused should receive sufficient information to enable him to reasonably understand not only the nature *Page 375 of the offense but the particular act . . . which he must be prepared with his proof."”
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.