Cunningham v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
March 1987
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brown v. State of Louisiana · Blackburn v. State · Buise v. State · Riner v. State · Quinn v. State
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The States, within the limitations imposed by the due process and equal protection requirements of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, may regulate and restrain the exercise of the freedom of expression, thereby insuring to all the freedom from the abusive exercise of the rights of others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Andrews v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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