Collins’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Menotti, Robert Cunningham (2000)
3 district · 1 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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Whren v. United States · Elrod v. Burns · United States v. O'Brien
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it was clear at that time, as it is today, that the occurrence of limited violence and disorder on one day is not a justification for banning all demonstrations, peaceful and otherwise, on the immediately following day (or for an indefinite period thereafter).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Victor Menotti Thomas Sellman Todd Stedl Doug Skove v. City of Seattle Paul Schell, Former Mayor of the City of Seattle Norman Stamper, Former Chief of Police of the City of Seattle Sharon Stevens, a Seattle Police Detective Ronald Smith, a Seattle Police Officer, Kenneth Hankin Jennifer Hudziec Stephanie Lane Denise Cooper Nicole Pearson on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated v. City of Seattle Paul Schell, Former Mayor of the City of Seattle Norman Stamper, Former Chief of Police of the City of Seattle · Menotti“the proper response to potential and actual violence is for the government to ensure an adequate police presence and to arrest those who actually engage in such conduct, rather than to suppress legitimate First Amendment conduct as a prophylactic measure.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Victor Menotti Thomas Sellman Todd Stedl Doug Skove v. City of Seattle Paul Schell, Former Mayor of the City of Seattle Norman Stamper, Former Chief of Police of the City of Seattle Sharon Stevens, a Seattle Police Detective Ronald Smith, a Seattle Police Officer, Kenneth Hankin Jennifer Hudziec Stephanie Lane Denise Cooper Nicole Pearson on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated v. City of Seattle Paul Schell, Former Mayor of the City of Seattle Norman Stamper, Former Chief of Police of the City of Seattle · Menotti“a few injuries to people, none of them extensive or life-threatening. The principal incidents involved property damage and appear to have been confined to an area of about four blocks.... [M]ost of the city was free from any form of unlawful conduct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Victor Menotti Thomas Sellman Todd Stedl Doug Skove v. City of Seattle Paul Schell, Former Mayor of the City of Seattle Norman Stamper, Former Chief of Police of the City of Seattle Sharon Stevens, a Seattle Police Detective Ronald Smith, a Seattle Police Officer, Kenneth Hankin Jennifer Hudziec Stephanie Lane Denise Cooper Nicole Pearson on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated v. City of Seattle Paul Schell, Former Mayor of the City of Seattle Norman Stamper, Former Chief of Police of the City of Seattle · Menotti
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.