Speiser v. Randall’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
789 federal appellate · 211 district · 818 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,060 later decisions (436 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Jackson v. Virginia (1979), Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth (1972)
789 federal appellate · 211 district · 818 state decisions — followed in 45 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2385 · 29 U.S.C. § 159 (§ 9 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
Cited together with Perry v. Sindermann · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · Sherbert v. Verner · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · 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 3,060 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where the burden of proof lies may be decisive of the outcome”
50 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“steer far wider of the unlawful zone....”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The separation of legitimate from illegitimate speech calls for ... sensitive tools....”
19 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.