Carlson v. People of State of California’s Empirical Analysis
310 U.S. 106 · 1940
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 25 district · 314 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 472 later decisions (33 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2009 · most notably Police Department of Chicago v. Mosley (1972), Dennis v. United States (1951)
51 federal appellate · 25 district · 314 state decisions — followed in 35 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 Thornhill v. Alabama · Schneider v. State · Lovell v. City of Griffin · Stromberg v. People of State of California
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 472 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The power and duty of the State to take adequate steps to preserve the peace and protect the privacy, the lives, and the property of its residents cannot be doubted.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“sweeping and inexact terms of the ordinance disclose the threat to freedom of speech inherent in its existence,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * publicizing the facts of a labor dispute in a peaceful way through appropriate means, whether by pamphlet, by word of mouth or by banner, must now be regarded as within that liberty of communication which is secured to every person by the Fourteenth Amendment against abridgment by a state.””
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.