State v. Forrest’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 2012
5 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 George L'Hote v. City Ofne W Orleans · State v. Montgomery · State v. McCormick · State v. Duncan · State v. Bailey
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here is no question that the state has broad authority under its police power to enact legislation to protect the health, safety and welfare of its citizens. This power vests the state with authority to enact restrictive legislation pertaining to prostitution, long regarded as a threat to the health and safety of the general public.[ [5] ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Woljar“that would require interference with the broad discretion of the legislature in setting up a system of punishment specifically designed to combat certain types of offenses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he solicitation by one person of another with the intent to engage in indiscriminate sexual intercourse with the latter for compensation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Woljar
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.