Van Sant v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2013
16 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 Hamling v. United States · Miller v. California · Brockett v. Spokane Arcades, Inc. · Walter v. United States · Pope v. Illinois
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“establishes that the statute forbids conduct in terms so vague that persons of ordinary intelligence must necessarily guess at the statute's meaning and differ as to its application.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Kerlin v. State · Guidry v. State“An overbreadth challenge asserts that the statute is not drawn in sufficiently narrow terms and foreseeably prohibits legitimate conduct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Kerlin v. State · McIntosh v. State“"A person who knowingly or intentionally: (1) sends or brings into Indiana obscene matter for sale or distribution; or (2) offers to distribute, distributes, or exhibits to another person obscene matter; commits a 'Class A misdemeanor. However, the offense is a Class D felony if the obscene matter depicts or describes sexual conduct involving any person who is or appears to be under sixteen (16) years of age."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fordyce v. State
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.