Commonwealth v. Gilfedder’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2015
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 18 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 Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Thornhill v. Alabama · Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A series of recent decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States has, as we read the cases, established the proposition that the exercise of these rights cannot be wholly precluded in public places such as streets and parks by sweeping general prohibitions and cannot be subjected to the requirement of permits the granting of which is not governed by binding rules adequate to insure the exercise of the rights under reasonable conditions. [cases cited]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in conflict with the rights of freedom of speech, of the press, and of assembly guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, made applicable to the States by § 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“except in a place designated by or as authorized in a rule, or regulation, or a written permit of the Board of Park Commissioners * * * sell, or distribute any goods, wares or circulars, or any other thing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.