Commonwealth v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 2004
18 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 United States v. Mazurie · Commonwealth v. Heinbaugh
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In § 5502, an actor is in violation of the section if, when three or more persons are engaged in `disorderly conduct,' which may cause, or may reasonably be expected to cause, `substantial harm or serious inconvenience, annoyance or alarm,' a police officer or other public official acting within the scope of his authority orders the participant and others in the area to disperse and such actor refuses to obey such order, he or she is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree. "The gravaman of the section is the failure to obey an order by a police officer or other public official to disperse when three or more persons are engaging in a `course of disorderly conduct.'" (Footnote omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Absent the assertion of an infringement of First Amendment freedoms, the specificity of a statute must be measured against the conduct in which the party challenging the statute has engaged.” (Footnote omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The gravaman of the section is the failure to obey an order by a police officer or other public official to disperse when three or more persons are engaging in a `course of disorderly conduct.'”
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.