450 Pa. Super. 533 - Commonwealth v. Zullinger’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2022
12 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 Rav v. City of St Paul Minnesota · Cohen v. California · Baumgartner v. United States · Commonwealth v. Ohle · 236 Pa. Super. 280 - Commonwealth v. Schnabel
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general rule, the First Amendment prohibits government interference with an individual’s freedom of speech. Only very narrow exceptions, such as obscenity, defamation, and “fighting words,” have been carved out of this general guarantee of freedom. Any speech which does not fit into one of these narrow exceptions is constitutionally protected regardless of how vulgar or lacking in taste or social, political or artistic content.... The right to free speech encompasses the freedom to speak foolishly and without moderation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.