357 So. 2d 455 - Clanton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2001
1 federal appellate · 11 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 · 339 So. 2d 641 - State v. Saunders · 330 So. 2d 3 - White v. State · 337 So. 2d 977 - Spears v. State
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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, ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beebe v. Foster“by their very utterance ... inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“should not be read to proscribe the use of language in any fashion whatsoever,”
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.