People v. Epton’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 1982
12 federal appellate ·
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 Dombrowski v. Pfister · Keyishian v. Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY · Dennis v. United States · Lanzetta v. State New Jersey · Yates v. United States
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is clear that the proscription of mere advocacy of the violent overthrow of the Government would be an unconstitutional infringement upon free speech [Dennis v. United States, 341 U.S. 494 , 71 S.Ct. 857 , 95 L.Ed. 1137 (1951)]. The advocacy of the overthrow of the Government by force and violence must be accompanied by an intent to accomplish the overthrow (Dennis v. United States, supra; Keyishian v. Board of Regents, 385 U.S. 589 , 87 S.Ct. 675 , 17 L.Ed.2d 629 ) and there must be a “clear and present danger” that the advocated overthrow may be attempted or accomplished (Dennis v. United States, supra).”
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.