Bachellar v. Maryland’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
119 federal appellate · 12 district · 168 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 398 later decisions (44 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Sandstrom v. Montana (1979), Francis v. Franklin (1985)
119 federal appellate · 12 district · 168 state decisions — followed in 26 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 Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Cox v. State of Louisiana · Yates v. United States · Stromberg v. People of State of California · Terminiello v. Chicago
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 398 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(I)f the jury believed the State's evidence, petitioners' convictions could constitutionally have rested on a finding that they sat or lay across a public sidewalk with the intent of fully blocking passage along it, or that they refused to obey police commands to stop obstructing the sidewalk in this manner and move on.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Thus, since petitioners' convictions may have rested on an unconstitutional ground, they must be set aside.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Since petitioners argue that their conduct was constitutionally protected, we have examined the record for ourselves. When ‘a claim of constitutionally protected right is involved, it “remains our duty ... to make an independent examination of the whole record.” ’ ””
2 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.