State v. Jordan’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 2004
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Miller v. California · New York v. Ferber
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.
“[We dol not accede to [the defendants'] argument that the word [was] not precisely defined so as to apprise them of the proscribed conduct. Words are symbols of communication and as such are not invested with the quality of a scientific formula. It is enough that they can be construed with reasonable certainty. Beyond that it suffices to add that "one who deliberately goes perilously close to an area of proscribed conduct shall take the risk that he may cross the line."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Green · State v. Morrison“(tlhe disputed language [was] ... sufficiently clear to convey 'warning as to the proseribed conduct when measured by common understanding and practices. The Constitution requires no more.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Morrison“for the purpose of sexual arousal of any person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Morrison
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.