People v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2025
1 district · 12 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 Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Screws v. United States · Cohen v. California · Brandenburg v. Ohio
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly: [[Image here]] (2) makes an offensive gesture or display in a public place, and the gesture or display tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace; [[Image here]] (4) abuses or threatens a person in a public place in an obviously offensive manner.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] person commits harassment if, with intent to harass, annoy, or alarm another person, he or she . . . [d]irectly or indirectly initiates communication with a person or directs language toward another person, anonymously or otherwise, by telephone, telephone network, data network, text message, instant message, computer, computer network, computer system, or other interactive electronic medium in a manner intended to harass or threaten bodily injury or property damage, or makes any comment, request, suggestion, or proposal by telephone, computer, computer network, computer system, or other interactive electronic medium that is obscene.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“40-9-106. Disorderly conduct. (1) A person commits disorderly conduct if he intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly: (a) Makes a coarse and obviously offensive utterance, gesture, or display in a public place; or (b) Abuses or threatens a person in a public place in an obviously offensive manner; ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Aguilar v. People
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.