Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions

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

1. ““1. Whoever with intent to provoke a breach of the peace, or under circumstances such that a breach of the peace may be occasioned thereby: “(1) crowds or congregates with others in or upon ... a public street or public highway, or upon a public sidewalk, . . . and who fails or refuses to disperse and move on, or disperse or move on, when ordered so to do by any law enforcement officer of any municipality, or county, in which such act or acts are committed, or by any law enforcement officer of the State of Mississippi, or any other authorized person, shall be guilty of disorderly conduct, . . and such conduct shall lead to a breach of the peace or incite a riot in any of the places herein named, and as a result of said breach of the peace or riot another person or persons shall be maimed, killed or injured, then the person guilty of such disorderly conduct as defined herein shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction such person shall be imprisoned in the Penitentiary not longer than ten (10) years.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 269 So. 2d 641 - Thompson v. State

2. ““After careful analysis of § 2087.5, Miss.Code 1942, Rec., we conclude that it is not vague and indefinite, and does not deny appellant in this respect due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The act points out in specific terms the elements of the offense and the constituent elements of it. See Amsterdam, The Void for Vagueness Doctrine, 109 U. of Pa.L.Rev. 67 (1960), reprinted in Selected Essays on Constitutional Law, pp. 560-599 (1963).” 252 Miss, at 556, 160 So.2d at 670 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 269 So. 2d 641 - Thompson v. State

3. ““* * * any infraction upon the public order and tranquility by any act or conduct inciting to violence or tending to provoke or excite others to like conduct.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Chinn v. Johnson