State v. Farris’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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

1. “... give individuals adequate notice of the conduct prohibited by law.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 590 So. 2d 1139 - State v. Ritchie · 457 So. 2d 664 - State v. Liuzza

2. “"This Court has held that the constitutional guarantee that an accused be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation against him requires that a penal statute describe unlawful conduct with sufficient clarity that ordinary men of reasonable intelligence are capable of discerning its meaning and conforming their conduct thereto..... We have also held that the requirement that a statute be definite has been complied with when the language `has a generally accepted meaning such that a person of ordinary intelligence would be given fair notice of what conduct is forbidden', or when `the crucial words [or] phrases in the criminal statute have a fixed and definite meaning for a person of ordinary intelligence.' ..." (Citations omitted).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Pickering