Cox v. State of Louisiana’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
653 federal appellate · 116 district · 506 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,811 later decisions (107 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Buckley v. Valeo (1976), Griswold v. State of Connecticut (1965)
653 federal appellate · 116 district · 506 state decisions — followed in 44 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. § 1507
Relies on Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson
Cited together with Cox v. State of Louisiana · Raley v. Ohio · Adderley v. Florida · United States v. O'Brien · Edwards v. South Carolina
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 1,811 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“legitimate interest in protecting its judicial system from the pressures which picketing near a courthouse might create.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]fter the Commission, speaking for the State, acted as it did, to sustain the Ohio Supreme Court's judgment [affirming the convictions] would be to sanction an indefensible sort of entrapment by the State--convicting ... citizen[s] for exercising a privilege which the State had clearly told [them] was available to [them].”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[l]iberty can only be exercised in a system of law which safeguards order,”
16 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.