Smith v. Dameron’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
October 2015
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Womack v. Eldridge · Chaves v. Johnson · Gazette, Inc. v. Harris · Carwile v. Richmond Newspapers, Inc.
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Reasonable people could not conclude that the comments relied upon, no matter how untimely or insensitive they may have been, would cause violence or a breach of the peace.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.