Gregory v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The crime of sedition is defined to be the advocacy or suggestion in the manner indicated of public disorder or resistance of the government of the United States or of this commonwealth, or of a ■change in the government by force or violence or means other than those lawfully provided for that purpose. The crime denounced by section 7 of the act and the one here involved is the interference by violence, force, intimidation, or threats with an officer in the discharge of his duties as such. To disturb, hinder, obstruct, or intimidate an officer in the discharge of his duties, without more, falls far short of the advocacy by word, act, deed, or writing of public disorder or resistance to the government of the commonwealth. Further, the Legislature did not intend the two offenses to be identical. Tf the offense ... in question was meant to be included under the definition given to tlfe crime of sedition as set out in the second section of the act, it would not have been necessary for the Legislature to have set it up again in section 7 of the act, nor would it have been necessary for the Legislature in this section 7, after describing the offenses therein set out, to have provided specially for their punishment, if such offenses were meant to be included in the offense of sedition, since the punishment for this latter offense had already been prescribed. It is true that the punishment for both offenses is the same, but that is fortuitous.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Loveless v. Commonwealth

2. ““ ‘Sedition’ is defined to be the advocacy or suggestion by word, act, deed or writing of public, disorder or resistance to the Government of the United States or of the Commonwealth of Kentucky or of the Constitution or laws of either of them, or of the change or modification of the Government of the United States or of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, or of the Constitution or laws of either of them, by force or violence or by means other than by lawful means provided by the Constitution and laws of the United States and of the Commonwealth of Kentucky for such purpose.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Loveless v. Commonwealth