21 Or. App. 794 - State v. Soto’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1990
7 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 Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · Sherbert v. Verner · Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Leary 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`* * * embraces two concepts, freedom to believe and freedom to act. The first is absolute but, in the nature of things, the second cannot be. * * *'" Quoting from Cantwell v. Connecticut, 310 U.S. 296, 303-04 , 60 S.Ct. 900, 903 , 84 L.Ed. 1213 , 128 A.L.R. 1352 (1940).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“two-pronged concept of the First Amendment”
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.