Julie Wells’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
9 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Polk v. State (2003), Sons of Confederate Veterans Incorporated Griffin
9 district · 3 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 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Lemon v. Kurtzman · Ward v. Rock Against Racism · Perry Education Ass'n v. Perry Local Educators' Ass'n
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not limited to the 'information gleaned simply from viewing the challenged display.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“no indication that any of the [private speakers] ... even knew about the... sign, much less exercised any editorial control over its design or content”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to thank the sponsors and the citizens for the support of the cost of the display”
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.