People v. Vaughan’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Bolles v. People (1975), Bock v. Westminster Mall Co. (1991)
2 federal appellate · 26 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 United States v. O'Brien · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Recognition of the delicate and vulnerable nature of [the First Amendment] freedoms and the fact that they need breathing space to survive mandates that we give the closest scrutiny to state action which has the effect of curtailing or chilling free expression. Not only must a statute infringing upon expression be justified by an overriding state interest, but such a statute may be applied only where there is a clear and present danger to such interest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Bolles v. People“[b]ecause of the preferred position of freedom of speech in the United States Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Kool
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.