Monroe v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Bell v. State (1984), State v. Riggs (2017)
3 federal appellate · 24 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 700 (Enhanced Federal Security Act of 2000)
Relies on United States v. O'Brien · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Screws v. United States · Smith v. Goguen
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the discretion to impose sentence within the parameters prescribed by [a] statute and if the sentence is within the statutory limits, the appellate courts will not review it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] person who deliberately mutilates, defaces, or defiles the flag of the United States ... is guilty of a misdemeanor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“For over two hundred years the United States flag has played a significant role in the human affairs of this country. It is symbolic of the ideology of our nation. The flag is our representative emblem of the union of the states and the independence of the country. It is clear that the people of this state and of the other states of the Union have a unique and compelling interest in protecting the flag as the symbol of our nation. What may not be as readily apparent is that the public’s interest lies in having a symbol to represent the nation. This symbol belongs collectively to the people of the various states. While it is true that a physical reproduction of the symbol in the form of red, white and blue cloth may be privately purchased and owned, that which the flag represents is not subject to private ownership. We recognize that the people of this state have a substantial interest in protecting the symbol; this interest extends to regulating conduct which seeks to destroy the symbol by destroying copies of it. In enacting Code Ann. § 26-2803 the people, through their governmental representatives, have expressed their desire to safeguard the flag and all that it represents. See generally, Joyce v. United States, 454 F.2d 971 (D.C.Cir.1971), cert. den. 405 U.S. 969 , 92 S.Ct. 1188 , 31 L.Ed.2d 242 (1972). (Emphasis in original).”
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.