Cramp v. Board of Public Instruction of Orange Cty.’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
160 federal appellate · 81 district · 312 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 902 later decisions (76 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2022 · most notably Perry v. Sindermann (1972), Connick v. Myers (1983)
160 federal appellate · 81 district · 312 state decisions — followed in 34 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 Connally v. General Construction Co. · Thornhill v. Alabama · Massachusetts v. Mellon · United Public Workers of America v. Mitchell · Lanzetta v. State New Jersey
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 902 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A statute which either forbids or requires the doing of an act in terms so vague that men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application violates the first essential of due process of law.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ T solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the constitution and laws of the United States of America and of the State of Washington, and will by precept and example promote respect for the flag and the institutions of the United States of America and the State of Washington, reverence for law and order and undivided allegiance to the government of the United States.’”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The vice of unconstitutional vagueness is further aggravated where, * * * the statute in question operates to inhibit the exercise of individual freedoms affirmatively protected by the Constitution. 53 The vagueness problem therefore is whether a person could know from reading § 610 what is proscribed by its terms. 54 One matter which was previously pointed out was that substance rather than form governs the question of whether a particular contribution or expenditure came from a”
3 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.