Wilson v. Gooding’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1257
Relies on Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · Dombrowski v. Pfister · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Cox v. State of Louisiana
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any person who shall, without provocation, use to or of another, and in his presence, opprobrious words or abusive language, tending to cause a breach of the peace . . . shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.””
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.