30 Md. App. 253 - Downs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
September 1992
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Cohen v. California · Dennis v. United States · Schenck v. United States · Lewis v. City of New Orleans
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.
““You can call your local cop a MOTHER (fornication expletive deleted) PIG or any other name and there is NOT A THING he can do to you LEGALLY, not even tell you to shut up.... The U.S. Supreme Court has said so INDIRECTLY by refusing to back Arkansas in a recent COP BADMOUTHcase....””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Downs v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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