State v. Graham’s Empirical Analysis
1855
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 1993
2 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.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in a public place, and in the presence and hearing of divers good citizens of the State, then and there being, unlawfully did utter, publish, speak and say, the following gross, scandalous, profane and blasphemous language... . To the great scandal and common nuisance of all good citizens so then and there being as aforesaid, to the manifest corruption of public morals... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Marshall“[L]eave [the private views of citizens] to the lash of conscience and the frowns of neighbors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Marshall
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.