State v. Young’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

93 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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““* * * [A] statute which either forbids or requires the doing of an act in terms 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. * * *” See, also, State v. Young (1980), 62 Ohio St. 2d 370 , 16 O.O. 3d 416, 406 N.E. 2d 499 , certiorari denied (1980), 449 U.S. 905 .”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 17 Ohio App. 3d 256 - State v. Glover · Franklin v. Lykins

2. “*** The root of the vagueness doctrine is a rough idea of fairness. It is not a principle designed to convert into a constitutional dilemma the practical difficulties in drawing criminal statutes both general enough to take into account a variety of human conduct and sufficiently specific to provide fair warning that certain kinds of conduct are prohibited.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 17 Ohio App. 3d 256 - State v. Glover · State v. Spencer

3. “(A) No person, with purpose to establish or maintain a criminal syndicate or to facilitate any of its activities, shall do any of the following: (1) Organize or participate in organizing a criminal syndicate or any of its activities; (2) Provide material aid to a criminal syndicate or any of its activities, whether such aid is in the form of money or other property, or credit; (3) Manage, supervise, or direct any of the activities of a criminal syndicate, at any level of responsibility; (4) Furnish legal, accounting, or other managerial services to a criminal syndicate; (5) Commit, or conspire or attempt to commit, or act as an accomplice in the commission of, any offense of a type in which a criminal syndicate engages on a continuing basis; (6) Commit, or conspire or attempt to commit, or act as an accomplice in the commission of, any offense of violence; (7) Commit, or conspire or attempt to commit, or act as an accomplice in the commission of bribery... (B) Whoever violates this section is guilty of engaging in organized crime, a felony of the first degree. (C) As used in this section, “criminal syndicate” means five or more persons collaborating to promote or engage in any of the following on a continuing basis: (1) Extortion or coercion...; (2) Compelling or promoting prostitution, or procuring...; (3) Any theft offense...; (5) Illegal trafficking in drugs of abuse, in intoxicating or spirituous liquor, or in deadly weapons...; (6) Lending at usurious interest, and enfor”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lucario v. State