State v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Watts v. United States · Rogers v. United States · United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America v. United States Bay Counties Dist Council of Carpenters · In the Matter of Criminal Contempt of Thomas C McConnell · Silber v. United States
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In drafting legislation penalizing threats, we would not wish to authorize grave sanctions against the kind of verbal threat which expresses transitory anger rather than settled purpose to carry out the threat or to terrorize the other person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Marchand
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.