Cotton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Ex Parte Anderson (1995), Smith v. State (1987)
47 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 Grayned v. City of Rockford · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Thornhill v. Alabama · United States v. Harriss · Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A statute which either forbids or requires the doing of an act in terms so vague that men of common intelligence must guess as to its meaning and differ as to its application lacks the first essential of due process. A law must be sufficiently definite that its terms and provisions may be known, understood and applied; otherwise, it is void and unenforceable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. DeWillis 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.