State v. Max Wilson

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that a statute can be impermissibly vague if it “fails to provide people of ordinary intelligence a reasonable opportunity to understand the conduct it prohibits” (quotation omitted)
• relying upon legislative statement of purpose articulated in session law to interpret unambiguous statutory language
• “[A] statute will not be construed so as to lead to absurd consequences.”
• “A statute can be impermissibly vague for either of two independent reasons: (1) it fails to provide people of ordinary intelligence a reasonable opportunity to understand the conduct it prohibits; or (2) it authorizes or even encourages arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Jose Batista-Salva
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2019-02-22· cited 14×
• State v. Edward G. Proctor
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2019-02-08· cited 11×
• State v. Shawn Plantamuro
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2018-09-07· cited 1×
• State v. Chalpin
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2024-07-12· cited 1×
• Ronald W. Martin v. Warden, New Hampshire State Prison for Men
  D. New Hampshire· 2019-01-10· cited 1×
• State v. David Martinko
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2018-08-17
• State of New Hampshire v. Carley Williams
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2021-11-24
• State of New Hampshire v. Justin Parr
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2022-03-17
• State v. Rogers
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2024-10-11
• State v. Perez
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2025-02-07
• Felts v. City of Rochester
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2025-04-16
• Bel-Air Nursing and Rehab Center, Inc. v. Town of Goffstown, New Hampshire & Goffstown Zoning Board of Adjustment
  D. New Hampshire· 2018-01-02

Cites

54 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Troxel v. Granville
  Supreme Court· 2000-06-05· cited 6,943×
• Johnson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2015-06-26· cited 5,137×
• Ohio v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 1984-08-02· cited 1,064×
• Sanabria v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-14· cited 1,038×
• State v. Ball
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1983-12-12· cited 762×
• Christopher J. Farrell v. Corey Burke and Gregory Freeman, Docket No. 05-0169 Cv
  Second Circuit· 2006-05-31· cited 503×
• State v. Blackmer
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2003-01-10· cited 342×
• United States v. Harris
  D.C. Circuit· 1992-02-19· cited 157×
• Carter v. Dept. of Veterans Affairs
  California Supreme Court· 2006-06-08· cited 144×
• United States v. John Preston Rosenbarger, Jr.
  Sixth Circuit· 1976-06-23· cited 134×
• United States v. Rodney Anderson
  Eighth Circuit· 2015-04-16· cited 68×
• United States v. John Carmine Mastrangelo, A/K/A John A. Marino, A/K/A John James Rossi
  Eleventh Circuit· 1984-06-01· cited 59×
• United States v. Robert Bradsby, Elmer C. Ballance and Mortimer Fairchild
  Fifth Circuit· 1980-10-23· cited 52×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-01-13· cited 51×
• United States v. James H. Herzog
  Eighth Circuit· 1981-03-20· cited 50×
• State v. Kevin Lynch
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2017-03-10· cited 44×
• United States v. Wayne Douglas Wilson
  Seventh Circuit· 1992-05-06· cited 39×
• United States v. James M. Griffin
  Seventh Circuit· 1985-06-19· cited 35×
• State of New Hampshire v. Amy Kathleen Mouser
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2015-07-15· cited 33×
• State v. Ortiz
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2011-10-27· cited 33×