Frain v. Baron’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2006
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
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 Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette · Shelton v. Tucker · Edwards v. South Carolina · Street v. New York
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lundquist“our Constitution says we must take this risk ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lundquist
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.