Long v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Margraves v. State (2000), Perry v. S.N. (1998)
2 federal appellate · 90 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 Rhode Island v. Innis · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Orloff v. Willoughby
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) A person commits an offense if, with intent to harass, annoy, alarm, abuse, torment, or embarrass another, he: >■? ‡ # ‡ # # (7) (A) on more than once occasion engages in conduct directed specifically toward the other person, including following that person, that is reasonably likely to harass, annoy, alarm, abuse, torment, or embarrass that person; (B) on at least one of those occasions by acts or words threatens to inflict bodily injury on that person or to commit an offense against that person, a member of that person’s family, or that person’s property; and (C) on at least one of those occasions engages in the conduct after the person toward whom the conduct is specifically directed has reported to a law enforcement agency the conduct described by this subdivision.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“a general savings provision 'cannot substantively operate to save an otherwise invalid statute, since it is a mere restatement of well-settled constitutional restrictions on the construction of statutory enactments.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]pplication of the affirmative defense ... on a case-by-case basis would require people of ordinary intelligence-and law enforcement officials-to be First Amendment scholars.”
2 later decisions 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.