State v. James M.’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably Fogarty v. Gallegos (2008), American Civil Liberties Union v. City of Albuquerque (2008)
8 federal appellate · 56 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 Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Dombrowski v. Pfister · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Cohen v. California · State v. Lankford
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Disorderly conduct consists of: engaging in violent, abusive, indecent, profane, boisterous, unreasonably loud or otherwise disorderly conduct which tends to disturb the peace.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“four or five people had gathered to watch”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“may conceivably be applied unconstitutionally to others not before the court.”
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.