State v. Reynolds’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Alegata v. Commonwealth (1967), State v. Givens (1965)
42 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Nash v. United States · United States v. Wurzbach · Chesapeake Ry Co v. Bryant · Patrick Collins v. Commonwealth of Kentucky · State v. Northwest Poultry & Egg Co.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * `For a person to be guilty of disorderly conduct the public or some member thereof must be disturbed. It is generally considered that disorderly conduct embraces certain minor offenses defined by statute or ordinance to consist in disturbances of the peace and quiet of the public, the community, families, or a class of persons * * *.'" (City of St. Petersburg v. Calbeck, supra, 114 So.2d at 318 .)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the statute does not require that the act be committed in a public place or a specified place, then it is sufficient if the act is committed within the confines of the jurisdiction of the court, and, dependent upon the circumstances, it may be enough if the peace of only one person is disturbed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Conduct is “disorderly” in the ordinary sense when it is of such nature as to affect the peace and quiet of persons who may witness it and who may be disturbed or provoked to resentment thereby.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Janecek
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.