State v. Profaci’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 162 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 167 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2017 · most notably State v. Ramseur (1987), Right to Choose v. Byrne (1982)
3 federal appellate · 162 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 Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Thornhill v. Alabama · Street v. New York · Jay Fox v. State of Washington
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 167 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]ven though a statute may be open to a construction which would render it unconstitutional or permit its unconstitutional application, it is the duty of [a] Court to so construe the statute as to render it constitutional if it is reasonably susceptible to such interpretation.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the legislature acted with existing constitutional law in mind and intended the act to function in a constitutional manner.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“spoken loudly, in a public place and must ... be likely, in the light of the gender and age of the listener and the setting of the utterance, to affect the sensibilities of a hearer. The words must be spoken with the intent to have the above effect or with a reckless disregard of the probability of the above consequences. [ 56 N.J. at 353 ].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.