Schenck v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
249 U.S. 47 · 1919
Citation profile
494 federal appellate · 124 district · 643 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,906 later decisions (197 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably Cantwell v. State of Connecticut (1940), Roth v. United States (1957)
494 federal appellate · 124 district · 643 state decisions — followed in 44 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 Weeks v. United States · Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · Holt v. United States · Thomas Patterson v. People of the State of Colorado Ex Rel Attorney General of the State of Colorado
Cited together with Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Dennis v. United States · Gitlow v. People of the State of New York · Near v. State of Minnesota Olson
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 1,906 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.”
77 later decisions quote this exact passage“Indeed [Goldman] might be said to dispose of the present contention if the precedent covers all media concludendi. But as the right to free speech was not referred to specially, we have thought fit to add a few words.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“recruiting is gaining fresh supplies for the forces, as well by draft as otherwise”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.