Gooding v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
525 federal appellate · 121 district · 980 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,270 later decisions (156 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably Broadrick v. Oklahoma (1973), Rose v. Lundy (1982)
525 federal appellate · 121 district · 980 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedWilson v. Gooding (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · William Marbury v. James Madison · Dombrowski v. Pfister
Cited together with Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Cohen v. California · Lewis v. City of New Orleans · Coates v. City of Cincinnati
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 2,270 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“persons whose expression is constitutionally protected may well refrain from exercising their rights for fear of criminal sanctions by a statute susceptible of application to protected expression.”
45 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“be carefully drawn or authoritatively construed to punish only unprotected speech and not be susceptible of application to protected expression.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“'by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace.'”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.