State v. McKenna’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 2016
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 · Cohen v. California · Brandenburg v. Ohio · Terminiello v. Chicago · Gooding v. Wilson
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a thoughtless and toothless warning uttered in the midst of an emotional harangue.” Id. 14 . We based our conclusion that the words uttered by the defendant McKenna”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] group of people with normal sensibilities would not likely retaliate against a woman who called them [cocksuckers] and made wild, idle threats.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People ex rel. R.C.“addressed her remarks to a group of five men. She spoke to them as a group, not individually nor face-to-face.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People ex rel. R.C.
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.