State v. Schlueter’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 1973
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 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 State v. Riggs · Nicholls v. State
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We understand that the statute, in making it a misdemeanor to deface or to defile the flag, used those words in their meaning of “dishonor.” “Dishonor” is purposeful. The word imputes a lively sense of shaming or an equivalent acquiescent callousness. For illustration : A blind man stumbles over the flag and, not knowing what it is, walks upon it and then easts it aside. Has he “trampled” upon the flag? Has he “defaced” or “defiled” it? Has he “dishonored” it? We think not; because those words carry with them, by inherent meaning, an attitude of mind which is wholly lacking in the supposed instance.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.