State v. Pilcher’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably State v. Saunders (1977), Schochet v. State (1990)
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Terry v. Ohio · Younger v. Harris · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Roe v. Wade · Broadrick v. Oklahoma
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if it attempts to achieve a governmental purpose to control or prevent activities constitutionally subject to state regulation by means which sweep unnecessarily broadly and thereby invade the area of protected freedoms.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We therefore hold the statute cannot constitutionally be applied to alleged so-domitical acts performed in private between consenting adults of the opposite sex. We do not intimate any view of the constitutionality of the statute as applied in any other factual situation. (Italics added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Langley“Before the state can encroach into recognized areas of fundamental rights, such as the personal right of privacy, there must exist a subordinating interest which is compelling and necessary, not merely related, to the accomplishment of a permissible state policy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Mills v. State
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.