State v. Krijger’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
11 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 871 (Presidential Threat Protection Act of 2000) · 18 U.S.C. § 875
Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Claiborne Hardware Company · Watts v. United States · Crisp v. Rubin · Virginia v. Black
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he question in this case is not whether the defendant's words were reprehensible, which they clearly were; or cruel, which they just as assuredly were; or whether they were calculated to cause psychic harm, which they unquestionably were; but whether they were criminal .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Baccala
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.