457 So. 2d 664 - State v. Liuzza’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The guarantee of procedural due process embodied in the United States Constitution and Art. I, § 2, of the Louisiana Constitution requires that a criminal enactment contain an ascertainable standard of guilt that is not `so vague and standardless that it leaves the public uncertain as to the conduct it prohibits or leaves judges and jurors free to decide, without any legally fixed standards, what is prohibited and what is not in each particular case.' Giaccio v. Pennsylvania, 382 U.S. 399 at 403 , 86 S.Ct. 518 at 520-521 , 15 L.Ed.2d 447 at 450 (1966)."”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Briggs · 535 So. 2d 441 - State v. Azar

2. “, as used in the pandering statute to proscribe receiving a certain amount of support or maintenance from the earnings of a person engaged in prostitution, was unconstitutionally vague in that the term failed to provide an ascertainable standard of guilt). In order to decide whether a statute uses terms which adequately”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 590 So. 2d 1139 - State v. Ritchie

3. “Adequate notice consists of language which allows ordinary men of reasonable intelligence to understand and obey the law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 590 So. 2d 1139 - State v. Ritchie