People v. Vaughan’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1999
6 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 · Martin v. City of Struthers · Iowa-Des Moines Nat Bank v. Bennett Central State Bank · Goldstein v. Healy · Commonwealth v. Richardson
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A statutory provision that every person who maliciously and wilfully disturbs the peace or quiet of any neighborhood or person by loud or unusual noise, or by tumultuous or offensive conduct, is guilty of a misdemeanor, is not subject to attack for uncertainty on the ground that it fails to set up an ascertainable standard of guilt.””
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.