Perez v. Florida’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Together, Watts and Black make clear that to sustain a threat conviction without encroaching upon the First Amendment, States must prove more than the mere utterance of threatening words—some level of intent is required. And these two cases strongly suggest that it is not enough that a reasonable person might have understood the words as a threat—a jury must find that the speaker actually intended to convey a threat.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Boettger

2. “means to communicate a serious expression of an intent to commit an act of unlawful violence”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Boettger