Rosenfeld v. New Jersey’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 3 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2013 · most notably Erznoznik v. City of Jacksonville (1975), Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation (1978)
19 federal appellate · 3 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 24 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 · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Cohen v. California · Speiser v. Randall
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Any person who utters loud and offensive or profane or indecent language in any public street or other public place, public conveyance or place to which the public is invited ... is a disorderly person."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Parrillo · Canney v. State“The Model Penal Code, proposed by the American Law Institute, also recognizes a distinction between utterances which may threaten physical violence and those which may amount to a public nuisance, recognizing that neither category falls within the protection of the First Amendment. See Model Penal Code § 250.2(1) (a) and (b). (Proposed Official Draft 1962).”
1 later decision 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.