State v. Netto’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably State v. Moss (1986), Mason v. Seaton (1997)
31 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 Connally v. General Construction Co. · Roth v. United States · Lanzetta v. State New Jersey · Colten v. Commonwealth of Kentucky · United States v. Petrillo
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Both principles of law and considerations of policy govern the determination whether a statute fulfills its requirements under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Courts are often prone, however, to adopt concise phrases from well written opinions which summarily embrace a given standard. It is said that a statute which either forbids or requires the doing of an act in term so vague ‘that men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning’ and differ as to its application violates the first essential of due process of law. Connally v. General Construction Company, 269 U.S. 385, 391 , 46 S.Ct. 126, 127 , 70 L.Ed. 322, 326 [1926]. The line of demarcation between what is lawful and what is unlawful cannot be left to conjecture. The statute must be sufficiently explicit to inform those who are subject to it what conduct on their part will render them liable to its penalties. Roberts v. Clement, 252 F.Supp. 835 [D.C.Tenn. ’1966]’. ' No bhe should be required'at peril of life, liberty, or property to speculate as to the meaning of penal statutes. Lanzetta v. New Jersey, 306 U.S. 451 , 59 S.Ct. 618 , 83 L.Ed. 888 [1939]. On the other hand, legislatures when adopting such statutes as the one in question are reluctant to define such conduct in specific terms; for to do so would encourage the circumvention of such laws through the varied schemes that ingenious persons may discover.” 486 S.W.2d 725, at 728 . * * * * * * “The statute should be given a const”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rockwell v. State“The Legislature shall have no power to authorize lotteries for any purpose and shall pass laws to prevent the sale of lottery tickets in this State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he use of common experience as a glossary is necessary to meet the practical demands of legislation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Schimpf
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.