429 So. 2d 1121 - McCrary v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably Hunt v. State (1994), Culbreath v. State (1995)
34 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 802 (§ 102 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Grayned v. City of Rockford · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Morissette v. United States · United States v. Harriss · Parker v. Levy
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.
“`There must be ascertainable standards of guilt. Men of common intelligence cannot be required to guess at the meaning of the enactment. The vagueness may be from uncertainty in regard to persons within the scope of the act, or in regard to the applicable tests to ascertain guilt.'”
15 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Vann v. State · State v. Baker“'The overbreadth doctrine derives from the First Amendment, see Young v. American Mini Theatres , 427 U.S. 50 , 96 S.Ct. 2440 , 49 L.Ed.2d 310 (1976); Parker v. Levy , 417 U.S. 733 , 94 S.Ct. 2547 , 41 L.Ed.2d 439 (1974), and serves to invalidate legislation so sweeping that, along with its allowable proscriptions, it also restricts constitutionally-protected rights of free speech, press, or assembly, see e.g., Coates v. Cincinnati , 402 U.S. 611 , 91 S.Ct. 1686 , 29 L.Ed.2d 214 (1971). Since there are no First Amendment rights at stake here, the overbreadth doctrine does not apply.'”
4 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.