Lewis H. Sword v. James W. Fox’s Empirical Analysis
446 F.2d 1091 · 1971
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Geoffrey Sill, in No. 71-1233, and Richard A. Parkany, Intervening v. The Pennsylvania State University Appeal of Alan C. Cunningham (1972), The Black Coalition, an Unincorporated Association, and Cross-Appellees v. Portland School District No. 1, and Cross-Appellants (1973)
9 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 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 Younger v. Harris · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Cohen v. California · Cox v. State of Louisiana · Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Even where municipal or state property is open to the public generally, the exercise of First Amendment rights may be regulated so as to prevent interference with the use to which the property is ordinarily put by the State.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[But] all [courts] seem to agree that the same specificity is not required in college rules as is necessary in criminal statutes.”
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.