Garvey v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• reversing conviction for disorderly conduct “when the defendant, driving past the police station, called to the officer, ‘sooey’”
• reversing a disorderly conduct conviction for shouting “sooey” to an officer walking toward City Hall by the application of the “average person” test established in Chaplinsky
• evidence insufficient where defendant called police officer “sooey” while passing officer on the street

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Coggin v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2003-10-09· cited 215×
• State v. Creasy
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1994-05-05· cited 205×
• Bailey v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1998-07-09· cited 56×
• Pueblo v. Caro González
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1980-12-24· cited 27×
• State of Tennessee v. Teddy Ray Mitchell
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2011-03-31· cited 17×
• People v. Prisinzano
  Criminal Court of the City of New York· 1996-07-24· cited 16×
• State v. Roberts
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2002-08-06· cited 8×
• State of Tennessee v. Teddy Ray Mitchell
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2010-03-31
• State of Tennessee v. Kenneth D. Melton
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2000-08-04
• State v. Sue Tidwell
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2010-12-01
• Robert Lee Coggin v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2003-10-09
• State of Tennessee v. George Harris Patterson, III
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2026-03-11
• State of Tennessee v. Joshua Daniel Gibbons
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2026-06-02

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire
  Supreme Court· 1942-03-09· cited 2,706×
• Cohen v. California
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-07· cited 1,777×
• Gooding v. Wilson
  Supreme Court· 1972-03-23· cited 1,392×
• Lewis v. City of New Orleans
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-26· cited 127×
• Baxter v. Ellington
  E.D. Tennessee· 1970-10-06· cited 16×