State v. Peer’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2015
2 district · 22 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 Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Townes Associates, Ltd. v. City of Greenville · McCourt by and Through McCourt v. Abernathy · State v. Schrock · Sherer v. James
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“embracing a great variety of conduct destroying or menacing public order and tranquility. In general terms, it is a violation of public order, a disturbance of public tranquility, by any act inciting to violence. Although it includes acts likely to produce violence in others, actual violence is not an element of breach of the peace.... “[It] may be generally defined as such a violation of public order as amounts to a disturbance of the public tranquility, by act or conduct either directly having this effect, or by inciting or tending to incite such a disturbance of the public tranquility. Under this general definition, therefore, in laying the foundation for a prosecution for the offense of breach of the peace it is not necessary that the peace be actually broken; commission of an unlawful and unjustifiable act, tending with sufficient directness to breach the peace is sufficient.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. McAteer“Whether conduct constitutes a breach of the peace depends on the time, place, and nearness of other persons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Simms“acts likely to produce violence in others, actual violence is not an element of breach of peace.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Simms
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.