Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
172 federal appellate · 34 district · 305 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 736 later decisions (51 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2023 · most notably Grayned v. City of Rockford (1972), Kolender v. Lawson (1983)
172 federal appellate · 34 district · 305 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 National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · Dombrowski v. Pfister · Thornhill v. Alabama · Schneider v. State · Cox v. State of Louisiana
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 736 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“potential for arbitrarily suppressing First Amendment liberties.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only when a person who stands, loiters, or walks on a street or sidewalk so as to obstruct free passage refuses to obey a request by an officer to move on.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“stand or loiter upon any street or sidewalk of the city after having been requested by any police officer to move on,”
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.