State v. Lambert’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
September 1988
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Mersey · State v. Truby · 495 So. 2d 1306 - State v. Griffin · 439 So. 2d 377 - State v. Union Tank Car Co. · 361 So. 2d 866 - State v. Payton
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] penal statute must describe unlawful conduct with sufficient particularity and clarity that ordinary men of reasonable intelligence are capable of discerning its meaning and conforming their conduct thereto.”
1 later decision 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.