76 Wash. App. 830 - State v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2021
21 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 · Screws v. United States · Cohen v. California · Rowan v. United States Post Office Department · Newland v. Georgia
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`at the hands of persons who employ the telephone to torment others . . . and . . . from the intrusion of unwanted telephone calls'.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he gravamen of the offense is the thrusting of an offensive and unwanted communication upon one who is unable to ignore it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Profane' has another, common connotation, however. It is frequently used to describe language `[m]anifesting irreverence or disrespect toward the Deity or sacred things.'”
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.