274 Ga. App. 731 - Turner v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. “a person commits the offense of disorderly conduct when ... (3) [w]ithout provocation, [the person] 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."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 279 Ga. App. 86 - Sandidge v. State · In Re LEN

2. “the language used was substantially more offensive and was directed to the officer's face in a threatening way, and would therefore tend to provoke either an immediate breach of the peace or a call for additional support”

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

3. “disorderly conduct arising from the use of offensive language alone must examine not only the words used but also the circumstances and context in which they were said.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re LEN