Baumgartner v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 35 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A] statute is void for vagueness only if it is vague as applied to the precise cireumstances of the present case.... The defendant is not at liberty to devise hypothetical situations which might demonstrate vagueness.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gary W. Yoakum v. State of Indiana · Salter v. State

2. “even if we were to consider [the defendant's] argument upon the merit s, he would not prevail because his challenge to the statute as unconstitutionally vague fails”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Price v. State · Tooley v. State

3. “the constitutionality of a statute may be raised at any stage of the proceeding including raising the issue sua sponte by this Court,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tooley v. State · Slone v. State