State v. Bullard’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably State v. Vestal (1971), State v. Campbell (1972)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 41 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Reynolds v. States · Marsh v. State of Alabama · Louis Liggett Co v. Baldridge
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the exercise of his religion to commit acts which constitute threats to the public safety, morals, peace and order.”
2 later decisions 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.