9 Kan. App. 2d 459 - State v. Beck’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2018
6 district · 4 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 · Killian v. United States · State v. Huffman · Diehl v. State · City of St. Paul v. Morris
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.
“[T]o be fighting words defendant’s language must have been such as to tend to incite an assault or other immediate breach of the peace by the officers to whom they were addressed. We prefer the ultimate concept expressed by the Minnesota Supreme Court in City of St. Paul v. Morris, 258 Minn. [467] at 468-69, 104 N.W.2d 902 [(1960)]: “While it is obvious that not every abusive epithet directed toward police officers would be sufficiently disturbing or provocative to justify arrest for disorderly conduct, there is no sound reason why officers must be subjected to indignities such as present here, indignities that go far beyond what any other citizen might reasonably be expected to endure.” [W]hat is disorderly conduct depends upon the totality of the circumstances in any given case.”
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.