State v. Authelet

How courts have described this case

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

• holding as long as language is inherently likely to cause average person to react violently, it is not necessary that the person who is insulted actually react
• holding as long as language is inherently likely to cause average person to react violently, it is not necessary that the person who is insulted actually react
• as long as the language is inherently likely to cause the average person to retaliate violently, it is not necessary that the person who is personally insulted react violently
• courts “have invariably held the word to mean any words importing an imprecation of divine vengeance or implying divine condemnation or irreverence toward God or holy things”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Oliveira
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2005-08-05· cited 58×
• Svedberg v. Stamness
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1994-12-20· cited 46×
• State v. James M.
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1990-12-13· cited 44×
• State v. Fritz
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2002-06-12· cited 40×
• Johnson v. Palange
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1979-09-20· cited 29×
• B.E.S. v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1993-07-09· cited 29×
• State v. Russell
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2006-01-30· cited 28×
• State v. Tavarozzi
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1982-06-18· cited 21×
• Hershfield v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-05-05· cited 18×
• Mitchell v. Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2016-10-28· cited 12×
• South v. City of Mountain Brook
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1996-06-21· cited 11×
• State v. Sahady
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1997-06-05· cited 11×
• State v. Thomas H. Matthews
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2015-04-02· cited 8×
• D & J ENTERPRISES, INC. v. Michaelson
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1979-05-14· cited 7×
• State v. Alegria
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1982-08-10· cited 7×
• City of Bellevue v. Lorang
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1998-08-31· cited 6×
• In the Interest of S.J.N-K.
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2002-06-12· cited 6×
• Owens v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2002-09-27· cited 5×
• Miller v. City of Fairhope
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2003-02-28· cited 4×
• State v. DeAnthony Allen
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2013-06-19· cited 2×

Cites

44 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court· 1964-03-09· cited 8,531×
• Grayned v. City of Rockford
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-26· cited 4,586×
• Roth v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1957-06-24· cited 3,255×
• National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Button
  Supreme Court· 1963-01-14· cited 3,080×
• Miller v. California
  Supreme Court· 1973-10-09· cited 3,038×
• Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire
  Supreme Court· 1942-03-09· cited 2,706×
• Dombrowski v. Pfister
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-26· cited 2,255×
• United States v. Harriss
  Supreme Court· 1954-06-07· cited 1,827×
• Cohen v. California
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-07· cited 1,777×
• Cox v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1965-01-18· cited 1,449×
• Gooding v. Wilson
  Supreme Court· 1972-03-23· cited 1,392×
• Brandenburg v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-09· cited 1,379×
• Zwickler v. Koota
  Supreme Court· 1967-12-05· cited 1,325×
• Winters v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1948-05-03· cited 1,240×
• Bates v. City of Little Rock
  Supreme Court· 1960-02-23· cited 775×
• Bigelow v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-16· cited 767×
• Street v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1969-04-21· cited 632×
• Lewis v. City of New Orleans
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-20· cited 533×
• Rose v. Locke
  Supreme Court· 1975-11-17· cited 516×
• Barenblatt v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1959-10-12· cited 488×