State v. Robertson’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably United States v. Velasquez (1985), United States v. Super. Ct. in & for Maricopa Cty. (1985)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 78 state decisions — followed in 12 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act)
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Grayned v. City of Rockford · United States v. O'Brien · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"No law shall be passed restraining the free expression of opinion, or restricting the right to speak, write, or print freely on any subject whatever; but every person shall be responsible for the abuse of this right."”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“written in terms directed to the substance of any `opinion' or any `subject' of communication.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“`must be scrutinized to determine whether it appears to reach privileged communication or whether it can be interpreted to avoid such "overbreadth.”
4 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.