340 Pa. Super. 427 - Commonwealth v. Weiss’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2024
2 federal appellate · 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 Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · 324 Pa. Super. 420 - Commonwealth v. Taylor · Commonwealth v. Mastrangelo · 304 Pa. Super. 67 - Commonwealth v. Pringle · 29 Ill. App. 3d 738 - People v. Douglas
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Disorderly conduct (a) Offense defined. — A person is guilty of disorderly conduct if, with intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, he: (3) uses obscene language, or makes an obscene gesture; (c) Definition. — As used in this section the word "public” means affecting or likely to affect persons in a place to which the public or a substantial group has access; among the places included are highways, transport facilities, schools, prisons, apartment houses, places of business or amusement, any neighborhood, or any premises which are open to the public,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“no conscious disregard of a substantial and unjustifiable risk that public annoyance or alarm would result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Hock
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.