State v. Hotham’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2016
15 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 Roth v. United States · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Gooding v. Wilson · Watts v. United States · Beauharnais v. Illinois
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We do not ask whether or not this defendant succeeded in frightening a police officer. We ask only whether or not he used words which would under the circumstances then existing be heard by an ordinary person as being spoken not in jest but as carrying the serious promise of death.” Id. at 442 ; accord, State v. Hotham, Me., 307 A.2d 185 (1973).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Giles“which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace,”
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.