State v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

27 state decisions

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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “1. A person is guilty of terrorizing if he communicates to any person a threat to commit or to cause to be committed a crime of violence dangerous to human life, against the person to whom the communication is made or another, and the natural and probable consequence of such a threat, whether or not such consequence in fact occurs, is: A. To place the person to whom the threat is communicated or the person threatened in reasonable fear that the crime will be committed; or B. To cause evacuation of a building, place of assembly or facility of public transport.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Collins · State v. Daley

2. “restricts application of the statute to a kind of speech that produces or is likely to produce a clear and present danger of evils that Maine constitutionally may seek to prevent.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 31 Wash. App. 745 - State v. Montgomery · City of Portland v. Jacobsky

3. ““That on or about the 21st day of May, 1977, in the County of Penobscot, State of Maine, KENNETH SANDBERG did communicate to another person, namely Carl Andrews, Jr., a threat to commit a crime of violence, dangerous to human life, to wit, T will kill you and any other cop who tries to arrest me or remove me from my property’, the natural and probable consequence of such threat being to place Carl Andrews, Jr. in reasonable fear that the crime would be committed, and while doing so was armed with a dangerous weapon, to wit, a firearm.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Sandberg