Canney v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 1991
2 federal appellate · 7 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 Pierson v. Ray · Boddie v. Connecticut · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Cohen v. California
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Certainly after hearing appellant's speech and with the knowledge that a city ordinance, which had not been declared invalid existed which intended to protect the public at large from having to hear such offensive language, Officer Spivey had sufficient reason to arrest appellant in full compliance with § 901.15 F.S.A."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The legality of an arrest does not depend on the conviction or acquittal of the accused... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dixon v. State“(y)ou are under arrest for disorderly conduct, profane language.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wright v. Bailey
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.