Interstate Circuit, Inc. v. City of Dallas’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
127 federal appellate · 37 district · 211 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 632 later decisions (51 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Miller v. California (1973), New York v. Ferber (1982)
127 federal appellate · 37 district · 211 state decisions — followed in 37 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. § 1462 · 28 U.S.C. § 1257
Relies on National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · Roth v. United States · Freedman v. Maryland · Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan · Winters v. People of State of New York
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 632 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an answer to an argument that a particular regulation of expression is vague to say that it was adopted for the salutary purpose of protecting children,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'It is ... essential that legislation aimed at protecting children from allegedly harmful expression--no less than legislation enacted with respect to adults--be clearly drawn and that the standards adopted be reasonably precise....'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“precision of regulation must be the touchstone.”
4 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.