Breard v. City of Alexandria La’s Empirical Analysis
341 U.S. 622 · 1951
Citation profile
295 federal appellate · 63 district · 458 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,145 later decisions (119 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2023 · most notably Katz v. United States (1967), Broadrick v. Oklahoma (1973)
295 federal appellate · 63 district · 458 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 · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Parker v. Brown · Nebbia v. People of State of New York
Cited together with Martin v. City of Struthers · Valentine v. Chrestensen · Schneider v. State · Murdock v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
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 1,145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The First and Fourteenth Amendments have never been treated as absolutes. Freedom of speech or press does not mean that one can talk or distribute where, when and how one chooses. Rights other than those of the advocates are involved. By adjustment of rights, we can have both full liberty of expression and an orderly life.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a)ll regulatory legislation is prohibitory.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the knocker on the front door is treated as an invitation or license to attempt an entry, justifying ingress to the home by solicitors, hawkers and peddlers of all kinds.”
6 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.