68 N.C. App. 634 - Ellis v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
April 2014
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. Goguen · McKeiver v. Pennsylvania · Painter v. Painter · In Re Burrus · 50 N.C. App. 332 - In Re Biggers
Most-quoted passages
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““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.” . . . Even so, impossible standards of statutory clarity are not required by the constitution. When the language of a statute provides an adequate warning as to the conduct it condemns and prescribes boundaries sufficiently distinct for judges or juries to interpret and administer it uniformly, constitutional requirements are fully met. [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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