Coates v. City of Cincinnati’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
457 federal appellate · 208 district · 1,088 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,423 later decisions (91 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Broadrick v. Oklahoma (1973), Grayned v. City of Rockford (1972)
457 federal appellate · 208 district · 1,088 state decisions — followed in 47 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 Connally v. General Construction Co. · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Dombrowski v. Pfister · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Thornhill v. Alabama
Cited together with Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Smith v. Goguen · Kolender v. Lawson
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 2,423 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no standard of conduct is specified at all.”
110 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in a manner annoying to persons passing by.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage“mere public intolerance or animosity cannot be the basis for abridgement of these constitutional freedoms.”
20 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.