De Jonge v. Oregon’s Empirical Analysis
299 U.S. 353 · 1937
Citation profile
285 federal appellate · 101 district · 511 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,437 later decisions (242 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964)
285 federal appellate · 101 district · 511 state decisions — followed in 39 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 Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Near v. State of Minnesota Olson · Stromberg v. People of State of California · United States v. Cruikshank · Whitney v. People of State of California
Cited together with Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Stromberg v. People of State of California · Schneider v. State · Gitlow v. People of the State of New York · Near v. State of Minnesota Olson
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 1,437 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The greater the importance of safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve inviolate the constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly in order to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion, to the end that government may be responsive to the will of the people and that changes, if desired, may be obtained by peaceful means. Therein lies the security of the Republic, the very foundation of constitutional government.”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Conviction upon a charge not made would be sheer denial of due process.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The right of peaceable assembly is a right cognate to those of free speech and free press and is equally fundamental.”
3 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.