Smith v. Collin’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
147 federal appellate · 10 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 260 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2006 · most notably United States v. Emmert (1987), Yahoo! Inc. v. La Ligue Contre Le Racisme et L'Antisemitisme (2006)
147 federal appellate · 10 district · 15 state decisions
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 Schenck v. United States · Northeast Marine Terminal Co. v. Caputo · Beauharnais v. Illinois · National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie
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 260 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There indeed may be no such limit, but when citizens assert, not casually but with deep conviction that the [expression occurs] at a place and in a manner that [may be] taunting and overwhelmingly offensive [to others] of that place, that assertion, uncomfortable as it may be for judges, deserves to be examined. It just might fall into the same category as one’s right to cry fire in a crowded theater, for the character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.”
1 later decision 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.