State v. Leonard’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 1996
6 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 United States v. Wiltberger · State v. Rutledge · State v. Coppes · State v. Hill · City of Des Moines v. Reiter
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact that the phone call originated in the defendant’s home is unimportant. The offense is determined by the public or private nature of the place where the call is received or the words heard.... “We need not decide whether the clerk’s private office was a public place under these facts, for the evidence is that defendant spoke so loudly that a witness working in the main office, which is without question open to the public, overheard the conversation and the obscene words of the defendant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.