Vanasco v. Schwartz’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2010 · most notably Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc. (1976), Collin v. Smith (1978)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
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 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 5 U.S.C. § 7324
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Broadrick v. Oklahoma
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]othing in our decision downgrades the state's legitimate interest in insuring fair and honest elections. Undoubtedly, deliberate calculated falsehoods when used by political candidates can lead to public cynicism and apathy toward the electoral process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[W]e can agree with the Board's argument that calculated falsehoods are of such slight social value that no matter what the context in which they are made, they are not constitutionally protected.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“during campaigns for political office where the constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.