Suhr v. Maedche’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 state decisions

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “All laws must meet two requirements to survive a void-for-vagueness challenge: (1) the law must create minimum guidelines for the reasonable police officer, judge, or jury charged with enforcement of the statute; and (2) the law must provide a reasonable person with adequate and fair warning of the proscribed conduct. We use the “reasonable person” standard in reviewing a statute to determine whether these two dictates are satisfied. A law is void for vagueness if it 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. We review de novo a claimed violation of a constitutional right. ' We construe statutes to avoid constitutional infirmities, and any doubt must be resolved in favor of the statute’s constitutionality.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Kordonowy

2. “[A]n individual who is shown to have engaged in sexually predatory conduct and who has a congenital or acquired condition that is manifested by a sexual disorder, a personality disorder, or other mental disorder or dysfunction that makes that individual likely to engage in further acts of sexually predatory conduct which constitute a danger to the physical or mental health or safety of others....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Larson v. G.R.H.