Commonwealth v. Ebaugh’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
April 2018
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Grayned v. City of Rockford · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Smith v. Goguen
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a basic principle of due process that an enactment is void for vagueness, if its prohibitions are not clearly defined. Vague laws offend several important values. First, because we assume that man is free to steer between lawful and unlawful conduct, we must insist that laws give the persons of ordinary intelligence a reasonable opportunity to know what is prohibited, so that he may act accordingly. Vague laws may trap the innocent by not providing fair warning. Second, if arbitrary and indiscriminatory enforcement is to be prevented, laws must provide explicit standards for those who apply them....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the phrase 'annoy or disturb a reasonable person of normal sensitivities' in [a] [t]ownship's ordinance is an objective standard that looks to the impact of noise upon a reasonable person under the particular circumstances of the incident.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“disturbs a reasonable person of normal sensitivities.”
1 later decision 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.