Drews v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2013 · most notably Bachellar v. Maryland (1970), Barnhard v. State (1992)
3 federal appellate · 41 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 Shelley v. Kraemer · Boynton v. Commonwealth of Virginia · People v. Galpern · People v. Nixon · Williams v. Howard Johnson's Restaurant
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * the doing or saying, or both, of that which offends, disturbs, incites, or tends to incite, a number of people gathered in the same area.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sharpe v. State · Diehl v. State“"A person may not act in a disorderly manner to the disturbance of the public peace, upon any public street, highway, alley, park or parking lot, or in any vehicle that is in or upon any street, highway, alley, park or parking lot, in any city, town, or county in this State, or at any place of public worship, or public resort or amusement in any city, town or county in this State, or in any store during business hours, or in any elevator, lobby or corridor of any office building or apartment house having more than three separate dwelling units, or in any public building in any city, town or county of this State.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dennis v. State · Barnhard v. State“[I.]t has been held that failure to obey a policeman’s command to move on when not to do so may endanger the public peace, amounts to disorderly conduct____ [RJefusal to obey an order of a police officer, not exceeding his authority, to move on “even though conscientious ... may interfere with the public order and lead to a breach of the peace,” and that such a refusal “can be justified only where the circumstances show conclusively that the police officer’s direction was purely arbitrary and was not calculated in any way to promote the public order.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Diehl v. State · Spry v. State
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.