629 So. 2d 841 - Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 700 So. 2d 370 - LB v. State (1997), 698 So. 2d 533 - State v. Mark Marks, PA (1997)
61 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 Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville · United States v. Petrillo · 103 S. Ct. 247 - Beneficial Finance of Kansas, Inc. v. United States · 618 So. 2d 205 - Joyner v. State
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The standard for testing vagueness under Florida law is whether the statute gives a person of ordinary intelligence fair notice of what constitutes forbidden conduct.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“conveys sufficiently definite warning as to the proscribed conduct when measured by common understanding and practices.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pavon · State v. Kirvin“A statute or ordinance is void for vagueness when, because of its imprecision, it fails to give adequate notice of what conduct is prohibited. Thus, it invites arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement.”
3 later decisions 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.