41 Ala. App. 254 - Mitchell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 1986 · most notably 44 Ala. App. 449 - Harris v. State (1968), 501 So. 2d 1136 - City of Dothan v. Holloway (1986)
2 federal appellate · 27 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 Gayden v. State · 38 Ala. App. 39 - Gayden v. State · Hochman v. State · Jones v. State · State v. Collins
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any person who disturbs the peace of others by violent, profane, indecent, offensive or boisterous conduct or language or by conduct calculated to provoke a breach of the peace shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $500.00 or be sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than 12 months, or both, in the discretion of the court.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jakes v. State · Johnson v. State“being strutty, puffing up one's cheeks and jamming one's hands into his trouser pockets as though he were Napoleon may disturb the peace of some people, but the standard for disturbance must be confined to conduct which is violent, menacing, or imports provocation to make another commit an actual breach of the peace.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It shall be unlawful for any person in the city to disturb the peace of others by violent, profane, indecent, offensive or boisterous conduct or language, or by conduct calculated to provoke a breach of the peace.”
2 later decisions 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.