People v. Shepard’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2017
19 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2511 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Secretary of State of Maryland v. Joseph H Munson Company Inc · People v. Garcia · People v. Baer
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because a party whose conduct is legitimately proscribed may also raise the rights of others not before the court, the over-breadth of the statute must be real and substantial, judged in relation to the statute's plainly legitimate sweep.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Laurent“[aleting to guard the general interest in youth's well being, the state as parens patriae may restrict the parent's control by requiring school attendance, regulating or prohibiting the child's labor and in many other ways.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n Colorado, we have extended [the] rule of standing to raise the third party claims on a facial challenge from the First Amendment to all fundamental constitutional rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People Ex Rel. Rja
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.