People v. Douglas

How courts have described this case

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

• “Arguing with a police officer, even if done loudly, will not of itself constitute a violation of this section.”
• no finding of breach of peace in absence of evidence of effect of defendant's conduct on bystanders
• ‘Vulgar language, however distasteful or offensive to one’s sensibilities, does not evolve into a crime because people standing nearby stop, look, and listen.”
• no finding of breach of peace in absence of evidence of effect of defendant’s conduct on bystanders
• defendant did not breach the peace by shouting vulgarities at police officers
• defendant did not breach the peace by shouting vulgar­i­ties at police officers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

24 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Barbara Payne v. Michael Pauley
  Seventh Circuit· 2003-07-09· cited 1,341×
• Frank Humphrey v. Norbert Staszak
  Seventh Circuit· 1998-07-23· cited 169×
• L.A.T. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-02-15· cited 38×
• People v. Albert
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1993-04-02· cited 27×
• People v. Gentry
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-05-06· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Weiss
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-03-22· cited 23×
• State v. Hawkins
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1999-09-03· cited 22×
• People v. Bradshaw
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1983-07-20· cited 22×
• People v. Allen
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1997-06-02· cited 22×
• People v. White
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-09-08· cited 21×
• People v. D.W.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1986-12-19· cited 19×
• People v. Trester
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1981-05-26· cited 16×
• People v. Justus
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1978-02-03· cited 14×
• People v. Rokicki
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1999-09-28· cited 13×
• McGaughey v. City of Chicago
  N.D. Illinois· 1987-03-18· cited 9×
• People v. Ellis
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1986-03-12· cited 8×
• People v. Greenwood
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1976-07-08· cited 6×
• People v. Nitz
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1996-11-15· cited 5×
• City of Chicago v. Mateja
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1978-01-27· cited 4×
• McGaughey v. City of Chicago
  N.D. Illinois· 1988-07-27· cited 3×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• The PEOPLE v. Raby
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1968-09-24· cited 268×
• The People v. Hoffman
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1970-03-24· cited 67×
• People v. Leach
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1972-01-25· cited 31×
• People v. Carroll
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1971-05-06· cited 28×
• City of Chicago v. Morris
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1970-12-04· cited 28×
• City of Chicago v. Blakemore
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1973-11-21· cited 25×
• People v. Wilbert
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1973-11-14· cited 24×
• People v. Shinn
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1972-05-22· cited 23×
• City of Chicago v. Wender
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1970-06-29· cited 18×