Harbin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2017
1 federal appellate · 16 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 · Isom v. State · Williams 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The focus of our inquiry here, then, must revolve around whether appellant’s admittedly profane words tended to “incite an immediate breach of the peace.”... [T]he most that can be said about appellant’s epithets is that they were offensive to the deputy who made , the arrest and perhaps an object of curiosity to the neighbor who opened her window.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“by their very utterance ... inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a clear and present danger of bodily harm to others.”
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.