35 Conn. Super. Ct. 587 - State v. Hoskins’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2021
7 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 Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Cohen v. California · Terminiello v. Chicago
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.
“The 'fighting words' concept has two aspects. One involves the quality of the words themselves. The other concerns the circumstances under which the words are used.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“both sides agree, as do we, that the constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech requires that [the provision prohibiting abusive speech set forth in § 53a-181 (a)(5) ] be confined to language which, under the circumstances of its utterance, constitutes 'fighting words'-those which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Buhl“offensive, indecent or abusive matter....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Buhl
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.