233 Ga. App. 314 - Tucker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2019
10 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 Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Eubanks · 209 Ga. App. 97 - Dunbar v. State · 147 Ga. App. 587 - Dillard v. State · 166 Ga. App. 704 - Brooks v. State
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is sufficient evidence in the instant case to find Tucker guilty of disorderly conduct under OCGA § 16-11-39 (a) (3). While seated at a crowded bar, Tucker, in a loud and boisterous voice, thrust obscenities upon innocent bystanders. He called women in the bar “f — ing c-ts” in conjunction with stating that the women could not prevent him from saying what he wanted to say. He utilized the phrase “f— you” several times, and became hostile and argumentative when Deputy Hodge asked him to calm down. Given these surrounding circumstances, Tucker’s response to Grayborn that he could say whatever the “f — ” he wanted to say could constitute “fighting words” in accordance with OCGA § 16-11-39 (a) (3). Tucker’s abusive and opprobrious words not only tended to provoke violent resentment, but in fact provoked Grayborn such that he was preparing to physically escort Tucker from the bar, and in Grayborn’s words, “slap the taste out of his mouth.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] person commits the offense of disorderly conduct when such person . . . [w]ithout provocation, uses to or of another person in such other person’s presence, opprobrious or abusive words which by their very utterance tend to incite to an immediate breach of the peace, that is to say, words which as a matter of common knowledge and under ordinary circumstances will, when used to or of another person in such other person’s presence, naturally tend to provoke violent resentment, that is, words commonly called “fighting words.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brantley v. State“I'm not going to any g___d___n jail and I'm not wearing any mother-f___g handcuffs”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re LEN
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