Rowan v. United States Post Office Department’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
288 federal appellate · 89 district · 331 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,001 later decisions (71 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2024 · most notably Hamling v. United States (1974), Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972)
288 federal appellate · 89 district · 331 state decisions — followed in 36 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 Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco · See v. City of Seattle · Ginsberg v. New York · Martin v. City of Struthers
Cited together with Cohen v. California · Martin v. City of Struthers · Kovacs v. Cooper · Frisby v. Schultz · Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation
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 1,001 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]o one has a right to press even 'good' ideas on an unwilling recipient.”
62 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“erotically arousing or sexually provocative”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n today's complex society we are inescapably captive audiences for many purposes, but a sufficient measure of individual autonomy must survive to permit every householder to exercise control over unwanted mail.”
8 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.