Broadrick v. Oklahoma’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2,156 federal appellate · 677 district · 2,998 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8,301 later decisions (232 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2026 · most notably Wolff v. McDonnell (1974), Elrod v. Burns (1976)
2,156 federal appellate · 677 district · 2,998 state decisions — followed in 49 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 Younger v. Harris · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Grayned v. City of Rockford
Cited together with United States Civil Service Commission v. National Ass'n of Letter Carriers · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Buckley v. Valeo · New York v. Ferber · Parker v. Levy
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 8,301 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the overbreadth of a statute must not only be real, but substantial as well, judged in relation to the statute's plainly legitimate sweep.”
481 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Embedded in the traditional rules governing constitutional adjudication is the principle that a person to whom a statute may constitutionally be applied will not be heard to challenge that statute on the ground that it may conceivably be applied unconstitutionally to others, in other situations not before the Court.”
129 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ordinary person exercising ordinary common sense can sufficiently understand and comply with”
66 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.