Garrison v. State of Louisiana’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
831 federal appellate · 241 district · 1,501 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,391 later decisions (168 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025 · most notably Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois (1968), Connick v. Myers (1983)
831 federal appellate · 241 district · 1,501 state decisions — followed in 47 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Roth v. United States · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire
Cited together with New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · St. Amant v. Thompson · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts · Rosenblatt v. Baer
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 3,391 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]peech concerning public affairs is more than self-expression; it is the essence of self-government.”
203 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.”
35 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“anything which might touch on an official's fitness for office.”
32 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.