Cox v. State of New Hampshire’s Empirical Analysis
312 U.S. 569 · 1941
Citation profile
608 federal appellate · 184 district · 474 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,034 later decisions (181 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Bell v. Wolfish (1979), Broadrick v. Oklahoma (1973)
608 federal appellate · 184 district · 474 state decisions — followed in 43 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 Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · Thornhill v. Alabama · Schneider v. State · Lovell v. City of Griffin
Cited together with Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · Schneider v. State · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Cox v. State of Louisiana · Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham
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 2,034 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Civil liberties, as guaranteed by the Constitution, imply the existence of an organized society maintaining public order without which liberty itself would be lost in the excesses of unrestrained abuses.”
69 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here is nothing contrary to the Constitution in the charge of a fee limited”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for a circus parade or a celebration procession of length, each drawing crowds of observers, would take into account the greater public expense of policing the spectacle, compared with the slight expense of a less expansive and attractive parade or procession.”
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.