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337 So. 2d 977 - Spears v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1976

Citation profile

24
cited by 24 later decisions
1
states following
August 2006
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2006

2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions

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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 Connally v. General Construction Co. · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · Roth v. United States · Miller v. California · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire

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.

  1. “the danger that a citizen will be punished as a criminal for exercising his right of free speech.”
    8 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Miller v. State · 570 So. 2d 257 - Stall v. State
  2. “nobody can be punished under a statute purporting to outlaw spoken words, if the statute would be unconstitutional as applied to anybody”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 339 So. 2d 641 - State v. Saunders · 789 So. 2d 1032 - Morris v. State
  3. “Any person who shall publicly use or utter any indecent or obscene language shall be guilty of a misdemeanor... .”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Cross v. State · 570 So. 2d 257 - Stall v. State

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.