offensive conduct
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 403 U.S. 15 - Cohen v. California · 1971Most cited · 3,080 citing opinions
behavior which has a tendency to provoke others to acts of violence or to in turn disturb the peace,' and that the State had proved this element because, on the facts of this case, '(i)t was certainly reasonably foreseeable that such conduct might cause others to rise up to commit a violent act against the person of the defendant or attempt to forceably remove his jacket.'
1 Cal.App.3d, at 99—100, 81 Cal.Rptr., at 506.
How often courts cite the case defining “offensive conduct”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “offensive conduct” — 3,053 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.