State v. Holden

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[W]henever possible, a statute should be construed so as to avoid a conflict with the state or federal constitution.”
• “[W]henever possible, a statute should be construed so as to avoid a conflict with the state or federal constitution.”
• “A statute that is overbroad in its scope and thereby abridges protected freedoms generally need not be stricken in its entirety[,]” and instead is “declared invalid to the extent that [they reach] too far, but otherwise left intact.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Hawkins
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 1998-04-13· cited 75×
• State v. Dopp
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 1996-12-04· cited 23×
• State v. Cook
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 2008-05-20· cited 22×
• State v. Gomez-Alas
  Idaho Supreme Court· 2020-09-02· cited 16×
• State v. Brashier
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 1995-10-30· cited 10×
• State v. Albert
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 2002-10-22· cited 9×
• Cowles Publishing Co. v. Idaho Counties Risk Management Program Underwriters
  Idaho Supreme Court· 2007-05-04
• Northwest Association of Independent Schools v. Labrador
  Ninth Circuit· 2026-02-12