Hess v. Indiana’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
152 federal appellate · 34 district · 232 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 583 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. (1984), Rav v. City of St Paul Minnesota (1992)
152 federal appellate · 34 district · 232 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 Glasser v. United States · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Roth v. United States · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire
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 583 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“intended to produce, and likely to produce, imminent disorder”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We'll take the fucking street later (or again)”
5 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.