Erznoznik v. City of Jacksonville’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
600 federal appellate · 169 district · 563 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,081 later decisions (141 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Buckley v. Valeo (1976), Perry Education Ass'n v. Perry Local Educators' Ass'n (1983)
600 federal appellate · 169 district · 563 state decisions — followed in 42 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 Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Grayned v. City of Rockford · United States v. O'Brien · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc.
Cited together with Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Young v. American Mini Theatres, Inc. · Miller v. California · United States v. O'Brien · Police Department of Chicago v. Mosley
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 2,081 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“selectively ... shield the public from some kinds of speech on the ground that they are more offensive than others.”
39 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“readily subject to a narrowing construction by the state courts,”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[s]peech that is neither obscene as to youths nor subject to some other legitimate proscription cannot be suppressed solely to protect the young from ideas or images that a legislative body thinks unsuitable for them.”
28 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.