State v. Coomes’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably State v. Ryan (1996), State v. Hauck (1973)
33 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 Sedlacek v. State · Cowan v. State · 64 W. Va. 625 - State v. Clark · 152 Tex. Crim. 338 - Woods v. State · State v. Long
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Breach of the peace is a common law offense. The term ‘breach of the peace’ is generic and includes all violations of public peace, order, decorum, or acts tending to the disturbance thereof.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘Every person who shall willfully disturb the peace and quiet of any person, family or neighborhood, shall upon conviction thereof be fined . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Woodworth
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.