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293 So. 2d 33 - Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1974

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
January 1977
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Roth v. United States · Miller v. California · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville

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.

  1. “"Any person who shall publicly use or utter any indecent or obscene language shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree... ."”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “publicly used or uttered in the context of recognized constitutional limitations.... There is nothing in Section 847.05 restricting obscene language to words relating to sexual acts of a prurient nature. Falling back on the crutch of the common law and saying that”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “or to any clear or present danger of harm to others ... It does not bother to specifically limit or define or describe”
    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.