378 So. 2d 414 - State v. Dousay’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 2004 · most notably State v. Prestridge (1981), 448 So. 2d 645 - State v. Davis (1984)
43 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 Gooding v. Wilson · Giaccio v. State of Pennsylvania · United States v. Reese · A. B. Small Co. v. American Sugar Refining Co. · Wright v. State of Georgia
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sufficiently distinct for judges and juries to administer the law in accordance with the legislative will.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pearaa · State v. Wilson“all usual and all reasonable measures and precautions to secure ... the proper operation... of”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“to the question of whether those within the reach of this regulation (ordinary reasonably intelligent operators of sewage treatment plants or disposal systems) can discern the meaning of these words and conform their conduct thereto, these words were so vague and indefinite that these businessmen would be forced to guess their meanings. Accordingly, we found section 10:22 of the sanitary code to be unconstitutionally vague. We did not hold in Dousay that words such as”
1 later decision 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.