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988 So. 2d 698 - Morton v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2008

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · United States v. Harriss · 387 So. 2d 943 - State v. Hagan · 769 So. 2d 1006 - State v. Fuchs · 700 So. 2d 104 - Travis v. State

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

  1. “[O]ur principal focus is whether the appellee established below that the statute 'is so vague and lacking in ascertainable standards of guilt that, as applied [to him], it failed to give 'a person of ordinary intelligence fair notice that his contemplated conduct is forbidden . . . .'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Our constitutional analysis begins with the facts of this case, because a statute cannot logically be vague in all applications if it is not vague as applied to the actual facts.”
    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.