22 Ariz. App. 524 - State v. Brahy’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2024
2 federal appellate · 14 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 · Cohen v. California · Terminiello v. Chicago · Winters v. People of State of New York · Gooding v. Wilson
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Are we to assume that our society is composed of thin-skinned individuals ready to strike back at the hint of an abusive epithet? No longer are the words of the rough, coarse and uncivilized confined to their likes. They are part of the working vocabulary of many in our society. To be a member of our society is to be familiar with them, to overhear them used and endure whatever offensiveness it might cause so long as the situation is not one in which the words become a call to combat.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Guein
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.