Saia v. People of State of New York’s Empirical Analysis
334 U.S. 558 · 1948
Citation profile
286 federal appellate · 43 district · 251 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 972 later decisions (138 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Brinegar v. United States (1949), Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
286 federal appellate · 43 district · 251 state decisions — followed in 30 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 · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Schneider v. State · Lovell v. City of Griffin
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 972 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“annoyance at ideas . . . be cloaked in annoyance at sound.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"To use a loud-speaker or amplifier one has to get a permit from the Chief of Police. There are no standards prescribed for the exercise of his discretion. The statute is not narrowly drawn to regulate the hours or places of use of loud-speakers, or the volume of sound (the decibels) to which they must be adjusted. The ordinance therefore has all the vices of the ones which we struck down in Cantwell v. Connecticut, 310 U.S. 296 , 60 S.Ct. 900 , 84 L.Ed. 1213 , 128 A.L.R. 1352 ; Lovell v. Griffin, 303 U.S. 444 , 58 S.Ct. 666 , 82 L.Ed. 949 ; and Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization, 307 U.S. 496 , 59 S.Ct. 954 , 83 L.Ed. 1423 .””
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“public dissemination, through loud-speakers, of items of news and matters of public concern and athletic activities shall not be deemed a violation of this section provided that the same be done under permission obtained from the chief of police.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.