State v. Wade’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably State v. James M. (1990), State v. Gattis (1986)
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 22 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
Relies on Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Gooding v. Wilson · Lewis v. City of New Orleans · State v. Lankford · Norwell v. City of Cincinnati
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.
“However, our Court of Appeals has previously considered similar conduct, and held that "[s]creaming obscenities and yelling 'get the hell out of the house' do not amount to 'fighting' words, particularly when they are addressed to police officers who are supposed to exercise restraint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[r]esisting, evading, or obstructing an officer primarily consists of physical acts of resistance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“covers only speech that can be called fighting words.”
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.