State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably 111 Wash. 2d 22 - City of Seattle v. Eze (1988), Eanes v. State (1990)
31 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 Zwickler v. Koota · People v. Harvey · State v. Starsky · State v. Robles
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to determine whether the noise made by appellant was loud and unusual, it must be evaluated in terms of a reasonable man standard. Our inquiry must determine whether the noise would disturb a person of ordinary sensitivities; that is, the “language or conduct is to be adjudged to be disorderly, not merely because it offends some supersensitive or hypercritical individual, but because it is, by its nature, of a sort that is a substantial interference with (our old friend) the reasonable man.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Zack · State v. Singer“A. A person is guilty of a misdemeanor who maliciously and wilfully disturbs the peace or quiet of a neighborhood, family or person by: 1. Loud or unusual noise.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Singer · State v. Cutright“We find no merit to appellant’s argument that the term “neighborhood” refers only to a locality! Reference to any standard dictionary indicates that a common meaning also is: “A number of people forming a loosely cohesive community within a larger unit (as a city, town) and living close or fairly close together____” Webster’s Third New International Dictionary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cisneroz
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.