Blount v. Rizzi’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
199 federal appellate · 45 district · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 577 later decisions (57 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Hamling v. United States (1974), Procunier v. Martinez (1974)
199 federal appellate · 45 district · 94 state decisions — followed in 20 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 Stanley v. Georgia · Speiser v. Randall · Freedman v. Maryland · Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan · Marcus v. Search Warrant of Property
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 577 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . the use of the mails is almost as much a part of free speech as the right to use our tongues . . . .”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Freedman v. Maryland, 380 U.S. 51 , 58, 85 S.Ct. 734, 739, 13 L.Ed.2d 649 (1965). As explained further by the Court in Blount v. Rizzi, 400 U.S. 410 , 417, 91 S.Ct. 423, 428, 27 L.Ed.2d 498 (1971): 30 (T)o avoid constitutional infirmity a scheme of administrative censorship must: place the burdens of initiating judicial review and of proving that the material is unprotected expression on the censor; require”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is for Congress, not this Court, to rewrite the statute.”
5 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.