State v. Appleton’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1970
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 Commonwealth v. Seeley · Commonwealth v. Jacobs · State v. Dresser
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . One who applies vile epithets to another in a public street, in the presence of bystanders, with the intention of annoying and disturbing such person, commits a breach of the peace. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cleveland““There was no evidence offered on the hearing of the motion, or at any step in the trial, to show that appellant had any other name than the one under which he was charged.” (p. 218.)”
1 later decision 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.