McAlpine v. Reese’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 2006
1 district · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 2283 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Connally v. General Construction Co. · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Roth v. United States · Dombrowski v. Pfister · Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No person shall wilfully or maliciously make or assist in making any noise, disturbance,’ or improper diversion by which the peace, quietude or good order of any public, private, or parochial school is disturbed.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The plaintiffs argue that the words ‘disturbance’ and ‘improper diversion’ are unclear. Cases are cited criticizing such words as ‘breach of the peace,’ ‘good order,’ ‘peace,’ and similar terms. But of this kind of semanticism there can be no end. No word has an intrinsic content. It gets meaning and contour from its context, from its association, and from its commonly understood usage. The thought expressed in the term ‘fast horse’ is not the same as that in the term ‘fast woman’ despite the similarity in terminology. * * * The vagueness label is properly applicable only to a statute or ordinance the terms of which are such that one of common intelligence must be in doubt both as to its meaning and its application.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.