Anderson v. Vaughn’s Empirical Analysis

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12 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"* * * we are of the view that the plaintiffs ought not be forced to violate a law affecting their First Amendment rights and subject themselves to criminal prosecution in order to place the issue before a judicial forum. Forced exposure to criminal sanctions in order to test the validity of statutory limitations of First Amendment rights is irreparable injury of sufficient dimension to justify federal declaratory relief. See Perez v. Ledesma [ 401 U.S. 82, 120 , 91 S.Ct. 674, 694 , 27 L.Ed.2d 701 (1971) (separate opinion of Mr. Justice Brennan)]." Anderson v. Vaughn, supra, 327 F.Supp. at 103 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Thoms v. Smith

2. ““By way of illustration, if one were to parade a Ku Klux Klan flag or other such emblem into an NAACP meeting it would quite likely provoke a riotous reaction; or to publicly carry a Nazi flag into a synagogue would certainly be calculated to incit disorder; or to display a Viet Cong flag at a political gathering of loyal Americans might well be calculated to provoke an incitement to violence. Contrary conclusions would be both unreal and naive.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 51 Ill. App. 3d 279 - Village of Skokie v. National Socialist Party of America

3. “about the circumstances under which federal courts may act when there is no prosecution pending in state courts at the time the federal proceeding is begun.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Thoms v. Smith