Cottonreader v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 1998 · most notably 67 Cal. 2d 845 - In Re Hoffman (1967), Wolin v. Port of New York Authority (1968)
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1971 (Civil Rights Act of 1957) · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority · Cox v. State of Louisiana · Terminiello v. Chicago · American Communications Ass'n v. Douds
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[ujnder such circumstances suppression by public officials or police of the rights of free speech and assembly cannot be made an easy substitute for the performance of their duty to maintain order by taking such steps as may be reasonably necessary and feasible to protect peaceable, orderly speakers, marchers or demonstrators in the exercise of their rights against violent or disorderly retaliation or attack at the hands of those who may disagree and object.”
2 later decisions 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.