339 So. 2d 641 - State v. Saunders’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Gold v. City of Miami (1998), Gold v. City of Miami (1997)
5 federal appellate · 62 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 Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Gooding v. Wilson · United States v. Thirty-Seven (37) Photographs · Lewis v. City of New Orleans · Art Theater Guild, Inc., Et Al. v. Ewing
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in a crowded theatre fall within its proscription, in order to avoid the constitutional problem of overbreadth, and”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whoever commits such acts as are of a nature to corrupt the public morals, or outrage the sense of public decency, or affect the peace and quiet of persons who may witness them, or engages in brawling or fighting, or engages in such conduct as to constitute a breach of the peace or disorderly conduct, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree....”
14 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Fields v. State · Smith v. State“nobody can be punished under a statute purporting to outlaw spoken words, if the statute would be unconstitutional as applied to anybody”
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.